United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.3d 180 · 1998
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably United States v. Brennan (2003), United States v. Lore (2005)
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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. § 1791
Relies on United States v. Olano · United States v. Young · Lawn v. United States · United States v. Nersesian · United States v. Pungitore
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prosecutor may argue in the negative that the assertions made by defense counsel that a witness is lying are not supported by the testimony in the record.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable response to improper attacks by defense counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is merely a method of prefacing an argument and does not by itself constitute vouching. The phrase fails to meet the vouching standard because it does not assure the jury that the witness is credible, but instead asks the jury to find that the witness was credible. This is proper argument. [ Id. at 188 .] X. We conclude that the other points raised in defendant's briefs are without sufficient merit to warrant discussion in a written opinion. R. 2:11-3(e)(2). The judgment of conviction and sentence are affirmed. NOTES [1] Lombardino was known by the nickname”
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.