State v. Walton’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2000
4 federal appellate · 14 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · 22 Cal. 3d 258 - People v. Wheeler · Commonwealth v. Soares · State v. Miller · State v. Sims
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.
“An instructional error is seldom a plain error. Defendant must go beyond a demonstration of mere prejudice and establish such a misdirection of the jury as would cause manifest injustice or a miscarriage of justice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“to show systematic exclusion of blacks as trial jurors by use of peremptory challenges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. Caspari
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.