United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
915 F.2d 480 · 1990
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably United States v. Nordby (2000), Frazer v. United States (1994)
77 federal appellate · 6 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Schmuck v. United States · Keeble v. United States · Carella v. California · Youngberg v. United States · United States v. Savinovich
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [the] timeliness of the motion; (2) [the] adequacy of the court's inquiry into the defendant's complaint; and (3) whether the conflict between the defendant and his attorney was so great that it resulted in a total lack of communication preventing an adequate defense.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient latitude to conduct the proper inquiry under the circumstances in each case.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is within the trial judge's discretion to deny a motion to substitute made during or on the eve of trial if the substitution would require a continuance.”
6 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.