Walton v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2018
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Alley v. Tennessee · 561 So. 2d 541 - Provenzano v. Dugger · 562 So. 2d 324 - State v. Kokal · 547 So. 2d 622 - Walton v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“properly determine if the document is, in fact, subject to a public records disclosure.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When, as in the instant case, certain statutory exemptions are claimed by the party against whom the public records request has been filed or when doubt exists as to whether a particular document must be disclosed, the proper procedure is to furnish the document to the trial judge for an in camera inspection. At that time, the trial judge can properly determine if the document is, in fact, subject to a public records disclosure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“); Walton v. State, 547 So.2d 622 (Fla.1989) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.