United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.2d 136 · 1972
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably 80 Ill. App. 3d 552 - People v. Massarella (1979), United States v. Barrett (1997)
8 federal appellate · 11 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 North Carolina v. Alford · McCoy 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he disciplined judicial mind should not be subjected to any unnecessary strain; even the most austere intellect has a sub-conscious.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mental discipline [that] is supposed to be part of the resources which the trial judge brings to his task”
3 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.