Kentucky v. King’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
122 federal appellate · 38 district · 219 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Kentucky Supreme Court)
Relationships
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Graham v. Connor · Payton v. New York · Florida v. Royer · Schmerber v. State of California
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 527 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When law enforcement officers who are not armed with a warrant knock on a door, they do no more than any private citizen might do. And whether the person who knocks on the door and requests the opportunity to speak is a police officer or a private citizen, the occupant has no obligation to open the door or to speak.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“applies when the exigencies of the situation make the needs of law enforcement so compelling that a warrantless search is objectively reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.”
19 later decisions 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.