Linkletter v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
1,779 federal appellate · 273 district · 2,362 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,634 later decisions (259 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Terry v. Ohio (1968), Illinois v. Gates (1983)
1,779 federal appellate · 273 district · 2,362 state decisions — followed in 50 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States Ex Rel. Victor Link-Letter v. Victor G. Walker, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana, and the State of Louisiana (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 242
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Gideon v. Wainwright · Mapp v. Ohio · Monroe v. Pape · Jackson v. Denno
Cited together with Mapp v. Ohio · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Stovall v. Denno · Desist v. United States · Tehan v. United States Ex Rel. Shott
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 5,634 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) the purpose to be served by the new standards, (b) the extent of the reliance by law enforcement authorities on the old standards, and (c) the effect on the administration of justice of a retroactive application of the new standards.”
253 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stone v. Powell · Allen v. Hardy“By final we mean where the judgment of conviction was rendered, the availability of appeal exhausted, and the time for petition for certiorari had elapsed. ...”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Allen v. Hardy · Rose v. Engle“operate[d] retrospectively upon cases finally decided in the period prior to Mapp.”
4 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.