United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
844 F.3d 1253 · 2017
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2024
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3142 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on Gall v. United States · Rita v. United States · Kimbrough v. United States · Sells v. United States · United States v. Pugh
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“basic aims of sentencing, namely (a) 'just punishment' (retribution), (b) deterrence, (c) incapacitation, and (d) rehabilitation,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district court gave inadequate attention”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. U.S. v. Walker · U.S. v. Cookson“we concluded that this sentence was substantively unreasonable because (1) the defendant had an extensive history of recidivism and lacked remorse and (2) the 57-month sentence created unwarranted sentence disparities.”
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.