United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.2d 365 · 1977
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States v. Kopituk (1982), United States v. Riley (1981)
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 1461
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Griffin v. California · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · United States v. Russell · Hampton 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While Brady requires the Government to tender to the defense all exculpatory evidence in its possession, it establishes no obligation on the Government to seek out such evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“manifestly intended or of such character that a jury would naturally take it to be a comment on the failure to the accused to testify,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meyer v. Estelle
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.