Goddard v. Kirkpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
October 1961
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Field v. Clark · Coyle v. Smith · City of Ensley v. Simpson · Johnson v. Grady County · Coyle v. Smith
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.
““According to the expressed view in this jurisdiction, it is far better that a provision should occasionally find its way into the statute through mistake or even fraud, than that every Act should be at any and all times liable to be put in issue and impeached by the journals, loose papers of the Legislature, and parol evidence. Such a state of uncertainty in the statute laws of the land would lead to mischief absolutely intolerable.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An enrolled bill duly filed in the office of the Secretary of State as the law provides imports absolute verity and the same cannot be impeached by the legislative journals. It is not competent to show by the journals that the Act was not regularly passed, but when such an Act is called in question the courts look to the enrolled bill only.””
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.