Walker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
422 F.2d 374 · 1970
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2003 · most notably Cuyler v. Sullivan (1980), Baty v. Balkcom (1981)
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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. § 2113
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Sanders v. United States · Presbyterian Church v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church · Marina Mercante Nicaraguense, S. A. v. McAllister Bros.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There must be some showing of a possible conflict of interest or prejudice, however remote, before a reviewing court will find the dual representation constitutionally defective.”
14 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.