Walker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
327 F.2d 597 · 1963
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 1996 · most notably Smith v. United States (1966), Commonwealth v. Smith (1976)
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Jones v. United States · Roviaro v. United States · United States v. Di Re · Hem v. United States · Casey 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would be to suggest that a warrant to search premises may be frustrated by the device of simply picking up the guilty object and holding it in one's hand.”
7 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.