United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 26 · 1993
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Oliveira v. Mayer (1994), Northrop v. Trippett (2001)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Sokolow · United States v. Place
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.
“a reasonably prudent man in the circumstances would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger * * *. And in determining whether the officer acted reasonably in such circumstances due weight must be given, not to his inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or “hunch,” but to the specific reasonable inferences which he is entitled to draw from the facts in light of his experience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[rjeasonable suspicion is dependent upon both the content of information possessed and its degree of reliability.” Ibid. The Court reasoned that the disputed anonymous tip, standing alone, would generally not be reliable enough to justify a Teny stop because it lacked any indi-cia of reliability. Id. at 30 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doran v. Eckold“Police verification of the “innocent” factors of a tip lends support to a reasonable suspicion determination, because it would be reasonable for the police to believe that the allegations of illegality will be true as well.”
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.