United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.3d 1217 · 1998
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2024
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Kolender v. Lawson · Gooch v. United States · United States v. Healy · Cedillo v. United States · United States v. Wilson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prior tó 1934, the Federal Kidnaping Act was applicable only if the captive was held for ransom or reward. See United States v. Healy, 376 U.S. 75, 81 , 84 S.Ct.' 553, 557, ll L.Ed.2d 527 (1964). Congress amended the wording of the Act in 1934 to encompass persons held “for ransom or reward or otherwise.” Id. In Gooch v. United .States, 297. U.S. 124,128, 56 S.Ct. 395, 397 , 80 L.Ed. 522 (1936), the Supreme Court interpreted the “or otherwise” amendment to encompass any benefit which a captor might attempt to receive for himself. . Subsequently, in Healy , the Court held the Act is not limited to kidnapings for an ultimately illegal purpose. 376 U.S. at 82 , 84 S.Ct. at 557 (“we find no compelling correlation between the propriety of the ultimate purpose sought to be furthered by a kidnaping and the undesirability of the act of kidnaping itself’).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds for ransom or reward or otherwise any person ... when — (2) any such act against the person is done within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States; shall be punished by imprisonment ... and, if the death of any person results, shall be punished by death or life imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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