Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2025
18 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 Des Jardins v. State · Anthony v. State · State v. Welton · State v. Mentola · State v. Weaver
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Protracted” is defined as “to draw out or lengthen in time or space.” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, 1826(1963). “Member” means, “a bodily part or organ.” Id. at 1408. “Part,” in turn, is defined as, “aportion of aplantor animal body - - - -” Id. at 1645.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(B) physical injury that causes serious and protracted disfigurement, protracted impairment of health, protracted loss or impairment of the function of a body member or organ, or that unlawfully terminates a pregnancy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.