Walker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
93 F.2d 383 · 1937
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2006 · most notably United States v. Classic (1941), Anderson v. United States (1974)
45 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 28 U.S.C. § 413
Relies on Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · Norris v. State of Alabama · Addyston Pipe Steel Company v. United States · 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · McPherson v. Blacker
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects, or causes to be subjected, any inhabitant of any State, Territory, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States, or' to different punishmehts, pains, or penalties, on account of such inhabitant being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.” (R. S. § 5510; Mar. 4, 1909, c. 321, § 20, 35 Stat. 1092 .)”
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.