King v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
258 F.2d 754 · 1958
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 1984 · most notably Amador-Gonzalez v. United States (1968), Henderson v. United States (1967)
58 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 19 U.S.C. § 482
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Boyd v. United States · Rochin v. People of California · Breithaupt v. Abram · United States v. Johnson
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case of excisable or dutiable articles, the government has an interest in them for the payment of the duties thereon, and until such duties are paid has a right to keep them under observation, or to pursue and drag them from concealment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Appellant ignores entirely the well settled principle that detention and search are of the very essence of the enforcement of the laws governing entry of persons into this country and of the detention and the punishment of smuggling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to (our) sensibilities all of the shockingness was (Penn's).”
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.