Korematsu v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
319 U.S. 432 · 1943
Citation profile
167 federal appellate · 10 district · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 349 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Pollard v. United States (1957), Bradley v. United States (1973)
167 federal appellate · 10 district · 117 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Berman v. United States · Ex parte United States · Zerbst v. Kidwell · Hill v. United States ex rel. Wampler · United States v. Murray
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 349 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he difference to the probationer between imposition of sentence followed by probation . . . and suspension of the imposition of sentence . . . is one of trifling degree.”
16 later decisions 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.