Walker v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reversing convictions of two appellants for insufficiency of the government’s evidence, even though only one of the appellants challenged his convictions on that ground
• A “defendant has no right to be present when presence would be useless, or the benefit but a shadow.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Michael D. Tann v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2015-11-19· cited 36×
• Emanuel Jenkins and Azariah Israel v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2013-12-12· cited 31×
• Tuckson v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2013-10-03· cited 22×
• Euceda v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2013-05-30· cited 21×
• Omar v. Rollerson & Rolita N. Burns v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2015-12-17· cited 17×
• Blaize v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2011-06-09· cited 16×
• Brian K. Gilliam, John A. Daniels, and Ronald L. English v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2013-11-21· cited 11×
• JAMARR MEDLEY ANTOINE RICHARDSON and LUCIOUS MCLEOD v. UNITED STATES
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2014-12-18· cited 10×
• Nunnally v. Graham
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2012-11-21· cited 9×
• Lucas v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2011-05-26· cited 7×
• Joseph Jones v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2014-09-18· cited 3×
• James Miller v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2015-05-21· cited 3×
• Shane Tynique Evans & Ebony Ruffin v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2017-06-15· cited 2×
• Robin v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2025-10-16
• Wallace & Layne v. United States Published Order
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2026-02-12

Cites

44 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Davis v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-19· cited 4,179×
• Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 2,882×
• Zafiro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 2,251×
• Miller-El v. Dretke
  Supreme Court· 2005-06-13· cited 1,931×
• United States v. Gagnon
  Supreme Court· 1985-05-13· cited 1,062×
• United States v. Martinez-Salazar
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-19· cited 746×
• Whorton v. Bockting
  Supreme Court· 2007-02-28· cited 725×
• Rivera v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 2009-03-31· cited 377×
• Wilson-Bey v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2006-07-20· cited 149×
• United States v. Spotted Elk
  Eighth Circuit· 2008-11-26· cited 129×
• Payne v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1986-10-15· cited 76×
• McFarland v. George Washington University
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2007-11-08· cited 75×
• Butler v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1984-07-23· cited 71×
• United States v. James Kevin Nelson
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-12-18· cited 53×
• Smith v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1978-07-25· cited 47×
• Coleman v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2008-05-22· cited 45×
• Clifford v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1987-09-30· cited 42×