Walker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.2d 900 · 1968
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably United States v. Thomas A. Warren, John L. Warren, Jr., Des. E. Schick and David Defina (1978), Chapman v. United States (1977)
54 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 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. § 2312 · 19 U.S.C. § 482
Relies on Griffin v. California · Grunewald v. United States · Ullmann v. United States · Sparf v. United States · Marsh 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We would be naive if we failed to recognize that most laymen view an assertion of the Fifth Amendment privilege as a badge of guilt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When an accused responds to a question, or even to an accusation, with an assertion of a claimed legal or constitutional right, the jury should not be permitted to infer from such an assertion any consciousness of guilt or tacit admission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“I refuse to answer on the grounds it might incriminate me.”
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.