State v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably State v. Surry (1900), 29 Wash. 2d 650 - Kellerher v. Porter (1948)
40 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 State v. Hodge · Ingalls v. State · People v. Ah Ki · People v. Chambers · Smith 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is not the quantum of any particular comment, but all comment whatever, that is inhibited by the constitution; . . . All remarks and observations as to the facts before the jury are positively prohibited.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hyde · State v. Yanai““Any presumption that may be drawn from such possession is a presumption of fact merely; in other words, it is only an inference that one fact may exist from the proof of another.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The possession of recently stolen property may or may not be a criminating circumstance, and whether it is or not depends upon the facts and circumstances connected with such possession. It is a circumstance to be considered by the jury in connection with all the other evidence in the given case, in determining the guilt or innocence of the accused,- and its weight, as evidence, like that of any other fact, is to be determined by them alone.” State v. Walters, 7 Wash. 246 , 34 Pac. 938, 1098 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Salzman
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.