State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 198 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 200 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Valcarce v. Fitzgerald (1998), Johnson v. Johnson (1989)
2 federal appellate · 198 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 v. United States Gypsum Co. · State v. Petree · Ashton v. Ashton · State v. Tanner · Lemon v. Coates
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 200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“against the clear weight of the evidence, or if [we] otherwise reach[ ] a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vigil · State v. Goodman“Findings of fact, whether based on oral or documentary evidence, shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous, and due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge the credibility of the witnesses.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“'only if the finding is without adequate evi-dentiary support or induced by an erroneous view of the law'”
9 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.