United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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.

1. “It is well settled [in the ACA context] that an incorrect statutory reference in an indictment does not require reversal where all of the essential elements of the correct statute are otherwise covered, but that any sentence imposed in excess of that allowed under the correct statute must be vacated and the case remanded for resentencing.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Dawkins · United States v. Lewis

2. “Where the government wrongfully secures a conviction under a state statute pursuant to the Assimilative Crimes Act, rather than under the relevant federal statute, the appropriate remedy is not a reversal of the conviction, but rather a vacating of the sentence and a remand to the district court for resentencing. 9”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Dawkins

3. “those instances where 'a defendant's valued right to have his trial completed by a particular tribunal must . . . be subordinated to the public's interest in fair trials designed to end in just judgments.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Walker v. Lockhart