United States v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
194 F.3d 37 · 1999
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 15 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States v. Dhinsa (2001), United States v. Rigas (2007)
53 federal appellate · 15 district · 1 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
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Graham v. Connor · Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Wolfish · Whitley v. Albers
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A bill of particulars is required only where the charges of the indictment are so general that they do not advise the defendant of the specific acts of which he is accused.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the light most favorable to the government, crediting every inference that the jury might have drawn in favor of the government.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It permits the accused to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation as required by the Sixth Amendment. It prevents any person from being subject for the same, offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb as required by the Fifth Amendment. Finally, it preserves the protection given by the Fifth Amendment from being ‘held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury,’”
4 later decisions 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.