Zucht v. King’s Empirical Analysis
260 U.S. 174 · 1922
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 6 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 223 later decisions (50 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Whitney v. People of State of California (1927), Bluefield Water Works & Improvement Co. v. Public Service Commission (1923)
32 federal appellate · 6 district · 72 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Neal v. Delaware · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. City of Goldsboro · Miller v. Wilson
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 223 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * Long before this suit was instituted, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U. S. 11 , had settled that it is within the police power of a State to provide for compulsory vaccination. That case and others had also settled that a State may, consistently with the Federal Constitution, delegate to a municipality authority to determine under what conditions health regulations shall become operative. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * regulation is not violative of the equal protection clause merely because it is not all-embracing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is our duty to decline jurisdiction whenever it appears that the constitutional question presented is not ... substantial in character.”
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.