United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
522 F.2d 194 · 1975
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably United States v. Michel (1979), United States v. Melendez-Gonzalez (1984)
34 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · United States v. Johnston · D U. S. v. Servantes
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““must be ‘reasonably related in scope to the justification for their initiation.’ 392 U.S. [1], at 29, 88 S.Ct. [1868], at 1884, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 [Terry v. Ohio]. The officer may question the driver and passengers about their citizenship and immigration status, and he may ask them to explain suspicious circumstances, but any further detention or search must be based on consent or probable cause.””
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.