Goldman v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2017
18 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 United Steelworkers of America v. Weber · In Re Inquiry Concerning a Judge No. 53 Peoples · Oakland Paving Co. v. Hilton · Cannon v. Taylor · Goldman v. Bryan
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any judge . . . who desires to retire voluntarily must give notice in writing to the governor. The governor shall appoint three physicians licensed to practice medicine in the State of Nevada to examine the judge and report the results to the governor in writing. If a majority of the physicians is of the opinion that the judge is permanently incapacitated, physically or mentally, the governor shall approve the retirement. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the 'well-recognized rule that an express constitutional provision requiring a certain thing to be done in a certain way is exclusive to like extent as if it had included a negative provision to the effect that it may not be done in any other way”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“willful misconduct, willful or persistent failure to perform the duties of his office or habitual intemperance,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.