Alabama v. King & Boozer’s Empirical Analysis
314 U.S. 1 · 1941
Citation profile
129 federal appellate · 70 district · 351 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 786 later decisions (104 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Montana v. United States (1979), Smith v. Allwright (1944)
129 federal appellate · 70 district · 351 state decisions — followed in 39 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 James v. Dravo Contracting Co. · Metcalf & Eddy v. Mitchell · Graves v. People of State of New York O'Keefe · Helvering v. Gerhardt
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 786 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The asserted right of the one (sovereign) to be free of taxation by the other does not spell immunity from paying the added costs, attributable to the taxation of (its contractors).”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to add to the sales price and collect from the purchaser the amount due by the taxpayer on account of said tax.”
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.