Godwin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. State · Shelton v. State · 147 So. 3d 1020 - Gage v. State · Johnson 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We perceive the court's comments regarding the defendant's lack of remorse as the court's recognition that it lacked any grounds to mitigate his sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e agree ... that in context, the trial court's comments at sentencing were made in connection with its rejection of the argument for mitigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.