United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
246 F.2d 519 · 1957
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1983 · most notably Wong Sun v. United States (1963), Draper v. United States (1959)
42 federal appellate · 12 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. § 3052 · 26 U.S.C. § 7237 · 26 U.S.C. § 7607
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Roviaro v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Weeks 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 7607. Additional authority for bureau of narcotics and bureau of customs “* * * [A] gents, of the Bureau of Narcotics of the Department of the Treasury * * * may— * * * “(2) make arrests without warrant for violations of any law of the United States relating to narcotic ■drugs (as defined in section 4731) ■or marihuana (as defined in section 4761) where the violation is committed in the presence of the person making the arrest or where such person has reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such violation.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That Walker’s arrest preceded the challenged search is undisputed on the record before us. The Agents stopped Walker’s car only because of what the informer related to them, coupled with their check of police records, and not because they were impelled by their observations. Nothing else shows in this record as the basis for apprehending Walker and, of course, the narcotics in his coat pocket were not open to view until Spillane ‘frisked’ Walker. Statutes aside, an arrest without a warrant on bare suspicion unsupported by reasonable grounds is illegal. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Law“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
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.