State v. Walls’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably State v. Chaney (1998), State v. Feltrop (1991)
2 federal appellate · 41 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 Edwards v. Arizona · United States v. Young · Wainwright v. Witt · Rideout v. United States · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining the punishment to be assessed against the defendant for the murder of Robert Wood, you must first unanimously determine whether one or more of the following aggravating circumstances exists: 1.Whether the defendant was convicted of Forcible Sodomy on July 19, 1990 in the Circuit Court of Clay County of Missouri. 2. Whether the defendant was convicted of felonious restraint on July 19, 1990 in the Circuit Court of Clay County of Missouri. 3. Whether the defendant was convicted of assault in the second degree of Ricky Ellmore on August 16, 1990 in the Circuit Court of Jackson County of Missouri. 4. Whether the defendant was convicted of assault in the second degree of Kelli Anson on August 16, 1990 in the Circuit Court of Jackson County of Missouri. 5. Whether the defendant murdered Robert Wood for the purpose of the defendant receiving money or any other thing of monetary value from Robert Wood. 6. Whether the murder of Robert Wood involved depravity of mind and whether, as a result thereof, the murder was outrageously and wantonly vile, horrible, and inhuman. You can make a determination of depravity of mind only if you find that the defendant, while killing Robert Wood or immediately thereafter, purposefully mutilated or grossly disfigured the body of Robert Wood by acts beyond that necessary to cause his death. 7. Whether the murder of Robert Wood was committed for the purpose of avoiding a lawful arrest of defendant. You are further instructed that the burde”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reuscher“(1) Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor; and (2) "Whether the evidence supports the jury’s or judge’s finding of a statutory aggravating circumstance as enumerated in subsection 2 of section 565.032 and any other circumstance found; (3) "Whether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime, the strength of the evidence and the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clemons“[MJany veniremen simply cannot be asked enough questions to reach the point where their bias has been made “unmistakably clear”; .... Despite this lack of clarity in the printed record, however, there will be situations where the trial judge is left with the definite impression that a prospective juror would be unable to faithfully and impartially apply the law.... This is why deference must be paid to the trial judge who sees and hears the juror.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walls 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.