United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
924 F.2d 1 · 1991
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 16 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably United States v. Neal (1994), United States v. Kimball (1994)
28 federal appellate · 16 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. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Griffin v. Hilke · United States v. Figueroa · United States v. Rush
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.
“The officer need not be absolutely certain that the individual is armed; the issue is whether a reasonably prudent man in the circumstances would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether the officer's action was justified at its inception, and whether it was reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified the interference in the first place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall be tolled whenever and for as long as the prisoner is unable to stand trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.