State v. Walls’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
184 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Williams (2011), State v. Adams (Slip Opinion) (2015)
184 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · United States v. Marion · Weaver v. Graham
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence as it exists when the indictment is filed and the prejudice the defendant will suffer at trial due to the delay.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The determination of `actual prejudice' involves `a delicate judgment based on the circumstances of each case.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he presumption against retroactive legislation is deeply rooted in our jurisprudence, and embodies a legal doctrine centuries older than our Republic.”
7 later decisions 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.