Goldsmith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 1994 · most notably Crawford v. State (1895), Morrison v. Clark (1916)
42 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 Pate v. State · Felix v. State · Webb v. State · Holmes v. State · Williams v. State
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the good character of the party accused, satisfactorily established by competent witnesses is an ingredient which ought always to be submitted to the consideration of the jury, together with the other facts and circumstances of the case. The nature of the charge and the evidence by which it is supported will often render such ingredient of little or no avail; but the moije correct course seems to be, not in any case to withdraw it from consideration, but to leave the jury to form their conclusion upon the whole of the evidence whether an individual whose character was previously unblemished, has or has not com mitted the particular crime for which he is called upon to answer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Apodaca 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.