United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.3d 518 · 1998
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably United States v. Navarro (1999), United States v. Hitt (2006)
25 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1622 · 18 U.S.C. § 1623 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Ohio v. Roberts
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to determine whether a rational trier of fact, after considering all the evidence and reasonable inferences drawn therefrom in a light most favorable to the verdict, could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not what effect the constitutional error might generally be expected to have upon a reasonable jury, but rather what effect it had upon the guilty verdict in the case at hand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he emphasis, or lack thereof, placed on the [evidence] by the prosecution can affect the perception of that [evidence] by the jurors.”
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.