United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on McNally v. Hill · Clark v. Memolo · Wilson v. Bell · Spaulding v. Sanford · McDonald v. Johnston
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““According to his own theory, based upon the alleged invalidity of the document signed by him, the earliest date on which he is eligible to apply for parole is September 30th, 1953, and further accepting his own computation for time off for statutory good behavior, there is still a substantial period of the sentence to be served.” 1”
1 later decision 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.