King v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
265 F.2d 567 · 1959
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Dickey v. Florida (1970), Nickens v. United States (1963)
32 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
Relies on Williams v. United States · Beavers v. Haubert · Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · Melrose Distillers, Inc. v. United States · United States v. Lustman
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[C]ases have to take their turn. The case on trial is entitled to deliberate consideration; the others on the calendar stack up. At the same time, too much heed to practicalities may encroach upon the individual’s rights. If the legislature were to refuse to install sufficient judicial machinery to perform the judicial tasks, it might he necessary to turn some accused persons loose.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There was no time, during the long delay, when the trial was not set on schedule. How could he have demanded a speedy trial when he was constantly promised one? The date set for his trial was never as much as a month off. The defect was not that the court failed to grant appellant a speedy trial date, but that it granted him too many speedy trial dates and failed to keep them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.