169 W. Va. 778 - State v. Goff’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably 193 W. Va. 519 - State v. Bradshaw (1995), 193 W. Va. 51 - State v. Honaker (1994)
40 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Mincey v. Arizona · Harris v. New York · Patterson v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A confession that has been found to be involuntary in the sense that it was not the product of the freewill of the defendant cannot be used by the State for any purpose at trial.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Where a person who has been accused of committing a crime makes a voluntary statement that is inadmissible as evidence in the State’s case in chief because the statement was made after the accused had requested a lawyer, the statement may be admissible solely for impeachment purposes when the accused takes the stand at his trial and offers testimony contradicting the prior voluntary statement....’ Syllabus Point 4, in part, State v. Goodman, 170 W.Va. 123 , 290 S.E.2d 260 (1981).””
3 later decisions 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.