Gooding v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 28 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 188 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably City of Rome v. United States (1980), Gramenos v. Jewel Companies, Inc. (1986)
61 federal appellate · 28 district · 73 state decisions — followed in 16 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
reviewedUnited States v. Gooding (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7237
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco
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 188 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A search warrant relating to offenses involving controlled substances may be served at any time of the day or night if the judge or United States magistrate issuing the warrant is satisfied that there is probable cause to believe that grounds exist for the warrant and for its service at such time.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“search warrant relating to offenses involving controlled substances may be served at any time of the day or night if the judge or the United States magistrate judge issuing the warrant is satisfied that there is probable cause to believe that grounds exist for the warrant and for its service at such time.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The idea of the police unnecessarily forcing their way into the home in the middle of the night — frequently, in narcotics cases, without knocking and announcing their purpose — rousing the residents out of their beds, and forcing them to stand by in indignity in their night clothes while the police rummage through their belongings does indeed smack of a “ ‘police state’ lacking in the respect for . . . the right of privacy dictated by the U.S. Constitution.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.