Brooks v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
199 F.2d 336 · 1952
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021
20 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993)
Relies on Gooch v. United States · Chatwin v. United States · United States v. Parker · Wheatley v. United States · Miller 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence established without contradiction that appellants, who were members of the Ku Klux Klan, disguised themselves in the regalia of the Klan and seized a man and woman at the woman’s residence in North Carolina, forcibly carried them to a lonely spot in South Carolina where they were given a flogging and told to stop living together and making liquor and to attend church." (199 F.2d at p. 336.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to persons who have been kidnaped and held, not only for reward, but for any other reason.”
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.