King v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 1983 · most notably Lozano v. Smith (1983), Workman v. Freeman (1956)
7 federal appellate · 30 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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A peace officer or any other person, may, without warrant, arrest an offender .when the offense is committed in his presence or within his view, if the offense is one classed as a felony, or as an ‘offense against the public peace.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McBeath v. Campbell
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.