United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
410 F.3d 754 · 2005
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2023
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Olano · United States v. Atkinson · Taylor v. Illinois · United States v. Beechum
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We will not disturb the district court's application of the exception absent a definite and firm conviction that the court made a clear error of judgment in the conclusion it reached....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“equivalent circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is to be used only rarely, in truly exceptional cases,”
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.