Goodman v. . Sapp’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1949
11 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be left, ordinarily, to the sound discretion of the judge who tries the case, and this Court will not review his discretion, unless it is apparent that the impropriety of counsel was gross and calculated to prejudice the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It (584) is true, as a rule of evidence, that when, in the investigation of a case, facts are proved against a party which it is apparent he might explain, and he withholds the explanation, the facts are to be taken most strongly against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maney v. . Greenwood“the mere fact that a party, plaintiff or defendant, did not testify in his own behalf was not the proper subject of comment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. York v. . York
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.