United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 409 · 1992
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. Wright (1994), United States v. Innie (1993)
56 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Mapp v. Ohio · United States v. Ross · Weeks v. United States · Elkins v. United States
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he proper' inquiry in determining whether to exclude the evidence at issue is not whether the state officials’ actions were “lawful” or “vaHd under state law.” The question that a federal court must ask when evidence is secured by state officials to be used as evidence against a defendant accused of a federal offense is whether the actions of the state official in securing the evidence violated the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Individual States may surely construe their own constitutions as imposing more stringent constraints on police conduct than does the Federal Constitution. We have never intimated, however, that whether or not a search is reasonable within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment depends on the law of the particular State in which the search occurs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“) 5 We further note that Joyce and another defendant filed a motion for continuance, which the district court, based upon its finding that the ends of justice so required, granted on January 25, 1988. See 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3161(h)(8)(A) (excluding any period of delay resulting from a continuance granted on the basis of the court's finding that the continuance served the”
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.