United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2018
8 federal appellate · 5 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 26 U.S.C. § 7212
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Blockburger v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · North Carolina v. Pearce · Gregg v. Georgia
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.
“The principle that a person can be found guilty of a crime and punished for his acts only if the state beforehand has made the commission of those acts a crime and has authorized punishment to be imposed upon proof that a person has in fact committed those acts is at the heart of the “rule of law” characteristic of Anglo-American jurisprudence.... The history of this principle has been traced to Greek and Roman legal systems. This principle also figured prominently in the development of the English common law from a decisional to a statutory system of criminal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beharry v. Reno“offenses from the first charge, even despite a common origin in the same”
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.