Walker v. Oswald’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.2d 481 · 1971
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2010
11 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Mempa v. Rhay · McConnell v. Rhay · United States v. Behrens · Menechino v. Oswald · United States ex rel. Bey v. Connecticut State Board of Parole
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“make subsequent determinations reducing such minimum period provided that the period shall in no case be reduced to less than one year.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“neither enjoys freedom from prison walls nor is entitled to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rummel v. Estelle
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.