Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Pellegrini v. State (2001), Byford v. State (2000)
40 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Estes v. Texas · Hurtado v. People of the State of California
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law of the first appeal is the law of the case on all subsequent appeals in which the facts are substantially the same.”
1 later decision 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.