Walters v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1965 · most notably Elkins v. United States (1960), State v. Coleman (1965)
2 federal appellate · 54 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 Weeks v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Gouled v. United States · Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey · Amos v. United States
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It does not seem to us reasonable or right that either government should be precluded from using evidence legally obtained, simply because discovered by officers of the other, and it certainly cannot be maintained that the provisions of either the state or federal constitution mean that a search under a valid search warrant, issued by either sovereignty, is an unreasonable search. We therefore conclude that the evidence introduced against defendant was competent provided the federal search warrant under which it was obtained was valid, but not otherwise. Its validity, of course, depends upon the federal law, and must be tested thereby. ’ ’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.