Walker v. McLain’s Empirical Analysis
768 F.2d 1181 · 1985
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Cincinnati Bronze, Inc. (1987), Liming v. Damos (2012)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Gideon v. Wainwright · Gault
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]rom the perspective of the person incarcerated, the jail is just as bleak no matter which label [civil or criminal contempt] is used.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Parcus · Grado v. State“[T]he argument that ... the defendant holds the keys to the jailhouse door does not apply to diminish the defendant's liberty interest. A defendant found in contempt and incarcerated does not hold the keys to the jailhouse door if the defendant cannot pay.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[slince petitioner may suffer collateral consequences following from his contempt conviction, his case is not moot ... The state may, for example, rely on the finding of contempt in determining child visitation rights or in other child support proceeding ... Thus, we find the case not to be moot despite petitioner's release from confinement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.