United States v. King’s Empirical Analysis
724 F.2d 253 · 1984
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably United States v. Sprinkle (1997), United States v. Awadallah (2003)
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 14 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Hoffa v. United States · United States v. Morrison · Cruz v. Hauck · Parham v. Cortese · United States v. Bailey
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shooting [at police] was an independent intervening act which purged the taint of the prior illegality”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.