United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1977
4 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. § 2314
Relies on Clark v. Memolo · Richards v. United States · United States v. Walker · Von Baden v. Hiatt · United States v. Walker
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A sentence of imprisonment shall be stayed if an appeal is taken and the defendant elects not to commence service of the sentence * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allocco v. Heritage
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.