Walls v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

113

cited by 113 later decisions

states following

January 2018

most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 112 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 648 So. 2d 85 - Jackson v. State (1994), 680 So. 2d 413 - Bonifay v. State (1996)

1 federal appellate · 112 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 United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Andrijevic v. Kelleran

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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“gains its greatest force to the degree it is supported by the facts at hand, and its weight diminishes to the degree such support is lacking”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Gudinas v. State · Gonzalez v. State
“[I]n order to find the CCP aggravating factor ... the jury must determine that the killing was the product of cool and calm reflection and not an act prompted by emotional frenzy, panic, or a fit of rage (cold), and that the defendant had a careful plan or prearranged design to commit murder before the fatal incident (calculated), and that the defendant exhibited heightened premeditation (premeditated), and that the defendant had no pretense of moral or legal justification.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Farina v. State · Jennings v. State
“A pretense of legal or moral justification is `any colorable claim based at least partly on uncontroverted and believable factual evidence or testimony that, but for its incompleteness, would constitute an excuse, justification, or defense as to the homicide.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Walker v. State · 748 So. 2d 237 - Nelson v. State

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.