United States v. Gooch’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.3d 673 · 1993
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 7 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Gardner v. Loomis Armored, Inc. (1996), United States v. Tibolt (1995)
30 federal appellate · 7 district · 14 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
Relies on Katz v. United States · Chimel v. California · Rakas v. Illinois · United States v. Ross · South Dakota v. Opperman
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to believe that entry ... was necessary to prevent physical harm to the officers or other persons, the destruction of relevant evidence, the escape of the suspect, or some other consequence improperly frustrating legitimate law enforcement efforts.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Exigent circumstances are those in which a substantial risk of harm to the persons involved or to the law enforcement process would arise if the police were to delay a search [ ] until a warrant could be obtained.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The presence of a firearm alone is not an exigent circumstance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.