United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 1483 · 1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2019
5 federal appellate · 2 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Michigan v. Jackson · United States v. Morrison · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · United States v. Killian
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven if we were to deem this a constructive denial of counsel-and we refrain from so deciding-we cannot ignore the mandate of Morrison that the relief must be tailored to the wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Robinson“bear[s] the responsibility of ensuring that the record is complete,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has given us no reason to believe he was unable to do so,”
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.