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← 249 Ala. 477 - Gooch v. State

Gooch v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1947

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
3
states following
August 2015
most recently cited

27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Wyatt v. State (1952), State v. Brandt (2011)

27 state decisions

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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

Relies on Rembert v. State · Deal v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. · Hobbs v. State · Taylor v. City of Clanton · Jones v. State

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"All contracts made on Sunday, unless for the advancement of religion, or in the execution, or for the performance of some work of charity, or in case of necessity, or contracts for carrying passengers or perishable freight or transmissions of telegrams or for the performance of any duty authorized or required by law to be done on Sunday are void. " (Emphasis Supplied)”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Williams v. State · 47 Ala. App. 278 - Griffin v. State
  2. ““1. Does a check dated on Sunday possess sufficient legal efficacy to defraud so as to be the subject of forgery where no extrinsic facts are alleged in the indictment? “2. Does Title 9, Section 21, Code of Alabama 1940, prevent the prosecution in the name of the State for the forgery of an instrument dated on Sunday?””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Williams v. State
  3. “Therefore an indictment in charging forgery should show that the instrument (check) was one the forgery of which would be an offense under the law. And if the writing is such `”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Williams v. State

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.