United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably State v. Hetland (1979), 377 So. 2d 1222 - State v. Jernigan (1979)
26 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 Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Bell · Price v. Williams · George Papuchis v. Honorable John A. Bresnahan, Referee in Bankruptcy
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However [in United States v. Frye, D.C.App., 271 A.2d 788 (1970)] we did not hold that police should ignore information from an unknown and unidentified citizen. Here the officers attempted to obtain the citizen’s name. When he refused to give his name the officers were not required to drop the matter then and there; they were under a duty to investigate it. It is true that in [Adams v. Williams, 407 U.S. 143 , 92 S.Ct. 1921 , 32 L.Ed.2d 612 (1972)] the information was given by an informant who was known to the officer and who had previously given him information, while here the information came from one unknown to the officers. The credibility of a paid or professional informer may be suspect, but in our opinion the same cannot be said of a citizen reporting a crime. While the citizen here did not specifically say he had seen the pistol in Willie’s possession, such was the clear inference from his report. [United States v. Walker, supra at 377-78 (footnote omitted).] 3”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lawson v. United States · In Re Sb
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.