United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
428 F.3d 1165 · 2005
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably United States v. Farish (2008), United States v. Ali (2010)
21 federal appellate ·
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. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Old Chief v. United States · Staples v. United States · United States v. Freed · United States v. Shoffner · United States v. Brown
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) relevant to a material issue; 2) proven by a preponderance of the evidence; 3) of greater probative value than prejudicial effect; and 4) similar in kind and close in time to a charged offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]ven if a firearm cannot be registered, an individual could still comply with the law by not taking possession of it.”
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.