Gooch v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
297 U.S. 124 · 1936
Citation profile
295 federal appellate · 47 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 671 later decisions (75 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Turkette (1981), United States v. Darby (1941)
295 federal appellate · 47 district · 98 state decisions — followed in 22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Maryland · Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. · United States v. Hartwell · United States v. John Bitty
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 671 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“limits general terms which follow specific ones to matters similar to those specified.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(a) Whoever knowingly transports in interstate or foreign commerce, any person who has been unlawfully seized, confined, inveigled, decoyed, kidnaped, abducted, or carried away and held for ransom or reward or otherwise, except, in the case of a minor, by a parent thereof, shall be punished * * * (2) by imprisonment for any term of years or for life, if the death penalty is not imposed. “(b) The failure to release the victim within twenty-four hours after he shall have been unlawfully seized, confined, inveigled, decoyed, kidnaped, abducted, or carried away shall create a rebuttable presumption that such person has been transported in interstate or foreign commerce.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Holding an officer to prevent the captor’s arrest is something done with the expectation of benefit to the transgressor. So also is kid-naping with purpose to secure money. These benefits, while not the same, are similar in their general nature and the desire to secure, either of them may lead to kidnap-ing. If the word ‘reward,’ as commonly understood, is not itself broad enough to include benefits expected to follow the prevention of an arrest, they fall within the broad term, ‘otherwise.’ ””
3 later decisions 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.