Walker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
429 F.2d 1301 · 1970
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2020
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Hayman · Henry v. Mississippi · Cheng Fu Sheng v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Zuber v. Allen · Birchfield 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A federal prisoner seeking habeas corpus relief has the difficult burden of coming forward with evidence which affirmatively shows the ineffectiveness of § 2255 relief in his case, and he cannot satisfy this requirement by merely showing that his provisions § 2255 petition was unsuccessful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lane v. Hanberry
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.