State v. Goldsmith’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Treadaway (1977), State v. Ellerson (1980)
52 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 Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Diaz v. United States · State v. Valdez · State v. Tacon · State v. Taylor
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he key factor is not the seriousness of the charge but that the accused, upon notice, has voluntarily absented himself from proceedings against him,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the appeal should be dismissed because [the defendant] had not been apprehended as of the date that his appeal was filed”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reed
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.