United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
39 F.3d 489 · 1994
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably United States v. Castner (1995), United States v. Aramony (1999)
16 federal appellate · 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. § 3572 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on United States v. Bruchey · United States v. Essick · United States v. McLean · United States v. Harvey · United States v. Taylor
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.
“This court has made it clear that the district court must make factual findings ... so that there can be a basis from which to review whether the district court abused its discretion in assessing a fine.”
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.