United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
665 F.3d 212 · 2011
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably United States v. Flores-Machicote (2013), United States v. Rivera-González (2015)
52 federal appellate · 7 district · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Puerto Rico District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 10 · 18 U.S.C. § 2261 (§ 40221 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 2261A · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 876 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Gall v. United States · United States v. Olano · Kotteakos v. United States · United States v. Young · Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]reat weight must be given to the plain language of [a] rule”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in which pervasive pretrial publicity has inflamed passions in the host community past the breaking point.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court also may transfer a criminal case to another district 'for the convenience of the parties, any victim, and the witnesses, and in the interest of justice.'”
3 later decisions 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.