United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
796 F.2d 43 · 1986
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 603 So. 2d 739 - State v. Lobato (1992), United States v. Green (2010)
30 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 793 · 18 U.S.C. § 794
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Pinkerton v. United States · Opper v. United States · Iannelli v. United States · United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ffirmative acts inconsistent with the object of the conspiracy and communicated in a manner reasonably calculated to reach co-conspirators.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a conspiracy to commit an offense and the substantive offense underlying the conspiracy are distinct crimes which do not merge into a single punishable act, and a defendant in a proper case can be prosecuted both for the conspiracy and the substantive offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[a]n agreement by two persons to commit a particular crime cannot be prosecuted as a conspiracy when the crime is of such a nature as to necessarily require the participation of two persons for its commission.'”
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.