United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.3d 71 · 2007
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Binderup v. Attorney General United States (2016), United States v. Grober (2010)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Solem v. Helm · Weinberger v. Salfi · Mistretta v. United States · Harmelin v. Michigan · Lockyer Attorney General of California v. Andrade
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is any reasonably conceivable state of facts that could provide a rational basis”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. (quoting Fitzgerald v. Racing Ass'n of Cent. Iowa , 539 U.S. 103 , 107, 123 S.Ct. 2156 , 156 L.Ed.2d 97 (2003) ). The Supreme Court has emphasized that”
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.