Walker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nu Car Carriers, Inc. v. Traynor · Anderson v. District of Columbia · R. S. Willard Co. v. Columbia Van Lines Moving & Storage Co. · Edmunds v. Frank R. Jelleff, Inc. Ex Rel. Allied Mutual Insurance · Fistere, Inc. v. Helz
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 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The best evidence rule requires that when the contents of a writing are to be proved the original writing must be produced unless its absence is satisfactorily explained.” Walker v. United States, 402 A.2d 813, 813-14 (D.C.1979) (per curiam).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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