Walker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
342 F.2d 22 · 1965
Citation profile
106 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably United States v. Fioravanti (1969), United States v. Silverman (1970)
106 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 1708 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 495 · 47 U.S.C. § 301
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Morissette v. United States · Allen v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Williamson 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was the Judges who first thought up the idea of the dynamite charge. It ought to be the Judges who put an end to it in a quick and not too decent a burial. “And in these rites, for the requiem I would take the words of Mr. Justice Clark speaking, not ex cathedra, but rather as Chairman of the Joint Committee for the Effective Administration of Justice delivered on the fiftieth annual meeting of the American Judicature Society August 14, 1963, in the report of that Joint Committee under the title ‘Progress of Project Effective Justice.’ Reporting on the state and regional judge seminars, he first said: ‘Our seminars do not attempt the transformation of the judge into a mechanical genius. We do not use Lee Loevinger’s gadget “jurimetries.” Science may reach the moon but it will never reach the jury. It still takes more than “symbolic logic” to do that. It takes an effective counsel with a competent judge presiding.’ “The Justice then concluded: ‘Nor do we circulate the “Allen charge” to the new judges as I used to do when heading up the criminal division in the Department of Justice. Allen is dead and we do not believe in dead law.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“because it was not necessary to state the object of the conspiracy with the same precision which would be required in an indictment charging the substantive offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Inasmuch as theft was a crime at common law requiring intent, the law still considers intent to be a necessary element of the crime . . . .”
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.