United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.3d 1196 · 1995
Citation profile
45 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably United States v. Bailey (1997), United States v. Pielago (1998)
45 federal appellate ·
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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Olano · United States v. Lopez · Custis v. United States · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We can think of no plainer error than to allow a conviction to stand under a statute which Congress was without power to enact. In essence, the statute was void ab initio, and consequently, the district court below lacked subject matter jurisdiction with respect to that charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'neither regulates a commercial activity nor contains a requirement that the possession be connected in any way to interstate commerce,' the Supreme Court held that in enacting the provision Congress exceeded its power to regulate interstate commerce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.