Erickson v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
4 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 1994 · most notably Visina v. Freeman (1958), Minneapolis Gas Co. v. Zimmerman (1958)
4 district · 25 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
Relies on Brush v. Commissioner · Smith v. New England Aircraft Co. · Rippe v. Becker · Bonsal v. Yellott · People ex rel. Bay City v. State Treasurer
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Examining the provisions of [L. 1943] c. 500, we discern its paramount purpose to be integration of the control of air traffic in the interest of public safety, not only as to the traffic but as to the people of the state. Subject to the constitutional powers of congress, the state government is responsible to the people for the exercise of its police power in such manner that the public welfare is best served.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * The state shall never contract any debts for works of internal improvements, or be a party in carrying on such works, * * *.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * It is essential to the safety of sovereign States that they possess jurisdiction to control the air space above their territories. It seems to us to rest on the obvious practical necessity of self-protection. Every government completely sovereign in character must possess power to prevent from entering its confines those whom it determines to be undesirable. That power extends to the exclusion from the air of all hostile persons or demonstrations, and to the regulation of passage through the air of all persons in the interests of the public welfare and the safety of those on the face of the earth. This jurisdiction was vested in this Commonwealth when it became a sovereign State on its separation from Great Britain. * * »”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.