Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably State v. Thompson (1966), Mears v. State (1967)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Jencks v. United States · People v. Rosario · State v. Fouquette · Garner v. State · 52 Cal. 2d 95 - People v. Chapman
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wlith the uncertainty existing in this case . . . 'the acts or effects thereof constituting or requisite to the consummation of the offense could have occurred in two or more counties, one of which was Washoe County.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Even if [the jury] determined that acts resulting in death were committed . . . in two or more counties, of which Washoe County was one, then, under NRS 171.030, venue was properly laid in Washoe County.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We conclude, therefore, that venue could properly be laid in Washoe County. . . . “There is no question concerning the jurisdiction of the Washoe County court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker 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.