United States v. King’s Empirical Analysis
402 F.2d 694 · 1968
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States v. Daddano (1970), United States v. Caraballo-Rodriguez (2007)
31 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3 · 18 U.S.C. § 4
Relies on Hoffman v. United States · Neal v. United States · Lancey v. United States · United States v. Trigilio
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The privilege afforded [against self-incrimination] not only extends to answers that would in themselves support a conviction . . . but likewise embraces those which would furnish a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute . . . . [I]f the witness, upon interposing his claim, were required to prove the hazard . . . he would be compelled to surrender the very protection which the privilege is designed to guarantee. To sustain the privilege, it need only be evident from the implications of the question, in the setting in which it is asked, that a responsive answer to the question of an explanation of why it cannot be answered might be dangerous because injurious disclosure could result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the principal had committed and completed the felony alleged, (2) the accused had full knowledge of that fact, (3) the accused failed to notify the authorities, and (4) the accused took an affirmative step to conceal the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wilson
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.