Wallace v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), George Kent Wallace v. Ron Ward (1999)
5 federal appellate · 22 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Ake v. Oklahoma · Rose v. Clark · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“issues of subject matter jurisdiction are never waived and can therefore be raised on a collateral appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]etitioner understood the nature of mitigating evidence, understood the choice between life and death, and knowingly and intelligently waived all his rights to present mitigating evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A statute must be held to mean what it plainly expresses and no room is left for construction and interpretation where the language employed is clear and unambiguous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.