United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
98 F.3d 944 · 1996
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Ewing (1997), United States v. Tisdale (2001)
22 federal appellate · 1 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. § 3142 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3585 · 18 U.S.C. § 3624
Relies on Santobello v. New York · McCarthy v. United States · Williams v. United States · Reno v. Koray · Carter v. McCarthy
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“strong presumption in favor of consecutive sentencing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]utdated convictions for serious offenses, even though they are offenses dissimilar to the one for which the defendant is being sentenced, are usable for purposes of making an upward departure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“limited purpose of establishing the incorrigible character of the defendant's criminal propensities.”
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.