United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
302 F.3d 322 · 2002
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Action Industries, Inc. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (2004), United States v. Hamlin (2003)
13 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States of America v. Rosalinda Miranda Abel Espinoza Rigoberto Rodriguez Oscar Rodriguez Hector Espinoza · Alcorn County Mississippi v. US Interstate Supplies Inc · United States v. Garcia
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.
“[i]n the case of less than 50 kilograms of marihuana,”
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.