People v. Goff’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 1980 · most notably 160 Cal. App. 2d 412 - People v. Loignon (1958), 139 Cal. App. 2d 266 - People v. Mora (1956)
40 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 21 Cal. 2d 690 - People v. Huston · 31 Cal. 2d 469 - People v. Westek · People v. Horowitz · 86 Cal. App. 2d 445 - People v. Mason · 73 Cal. App. 2d 933 - People v. Carlson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is that when a defendant, testifying in his own defense, acknowledges the physical touch of a child but asserts his innocent intent, he definitely places in issue the necessary element of intent and the prosecution may then introduce evidence that the defendant has committed similar offenses upon a person or persons other than the prosecuting witness in order to rebut the testimony of the defendant on a point material to the establishment of his guilt of the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Freeman 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.