King v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 11 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Nicholas v. United States (1966), Gottheiner United States v. Gottheiner (1983)
66 federal appellate · 11 district · 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. King (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Beck v. United States · United States v. Fisher · Bramwell v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Price v. United States · United States v. Butterworth-Judson Corp.
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every executor * * * who pays, in whole or in part, any debt due by the person or estate for whom or for which he acts before he satisfies and pays the debts due to the United States from such person or estate, shall become answerable in his own person and estate to the extent of such payments for the debt so due to the United States, or for so much thereof as may remain due and unpaid.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is to make those into whose hands control and possession of the debtor's assets are placed, responsible for seeing that the Government's priority is paid.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whenever any person indebted to the United States is insolvent, or whenever the estate of any deceased debtor, in the hands of the executors or administrators, is insufficient to pay all the debts due from the deceased, the debts due to the United States shall be first satisfied; and the priority established shall extend as well to cases in which a debtor, not having sufficient property to pay all his debts, makes a voluntary assignment thereof, or in which the estate and effects of an absconding, concealed, or absent debtor are attached by process of law, as to cases in which an act of bankruptcy is committed. R.S. § 3466.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.