United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
933 F.2d 812 · 1991
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 26 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably United States v. Botero-Ospina (1995), United States v. Shabazz (1993)
96 federal appellate · 26 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Brown v. Illinois · Berkemer v. McCarty · United States v. Sharpe
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“At a hearing on a motion to suppress, the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given the evidence, together with the inferences ... to be drawn from the evidence, are all matters to be determined by the trial judge”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n officer conducting a routine traffic stop may request a driver’s license and vehicle registration, run a computer check, and issue a citation. When the driver has produced a valid license and proof that he is entitled to operate the car, he must be allowed to proceed on his way, without being subject to further delay by police for additional questioning.”
4 later decisions 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.