United States v. King’s Empirical Analysis
604 F.2d 411 · 1979
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2025
11 federal appellate · 10 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 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Santobello v. New York · United States v. King · Sassoon v. United States · King v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall not accept the plea [of guilty] without first determining that the plea is made [1] voluntarily [2] with understanding of the nature of the charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As long as the factual basis is developed on the record, it may come from several sources”
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.