United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.3d 403 · 1997
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2016
14 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brewster v. Derwinski · Willey v. United States · Ketchum v. Denver Police Department · Sims v. Barkley · United States v. Mahaffey
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the defendant willfully obstructed or impeded, or attempted to obstruct or impede, the administration of justice during the investigation, prosecution, or sentencing of the instant offense.” U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 3C1.1 (1995). In United States v. O’Dell, 204 F.3d 829 (8th Cir.2000), the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals noted that”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendant and codefendant were inextricably related in the criminal offenses charged against both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this circuit has given a broad reading to the `instant offense' language”
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.