Walton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Nieto (2000), Springer v. City & County of Denver (2000)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 67 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 Evans v. Board of County Commissioners · Trinity Broadcasting of Denver, Inc. v. City of Westminster · Kanagawa v. State by and Through Freeman · Bertrand v. Board of County Commissioners of Park County · Fogg v. MacAluso
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Dangerous condition" means a physical condition of a facility or the use thereof which constitutes an unreasonable risk to the health or safety of the public, which is known to exist or which in the exercise of reasonable care should have been known to exist and which condition is proximately caused by the negligent act or omission of the public entity in constructing or maintaining such facility.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The purpose of the CGIA is to allow Colorado's law of negligence to operate against governmental entities, except to the extent that it has barred suit against them.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[TJhe CGIA's waiver provisions are entitled to deferential construction in favor of victims injured by the negligence of governmental agents, while the immunity provisions are subject to strict construction.”
2 later decisions 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.