State v. Goodroad’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Martinmaas v. Engelmann (2000), State v. Smith (1999)
58 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 Doyle v. Ohio · United Families of America v. Kendrick · Greer v. Miller · United States v. Hale · South Dakota v. Neville
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test is not whether we would have made the same ruling, but whether we believe a judicial mind, in view of the law and the circumstances, could have reasonably reached the same conclusion.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holzer · State v. Charger“[E]videntiary rulings made by the trial court are presumed correct and are reviewed under an abuse of discretion standard.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lee · State v. Hoadley“1. Whether the trial court abused its discretion in admitting other acts evidence. 2. Whether the trial court erred in denying the suppression of Owen’s statements to law enforcement. 3. Whether the trial court erred by denying Owen’s requested self-defense instruction. 4. Whether there was sufficient evidence to prove first degree murder. 5. Whether the State had jurisdiction over Owen’s crimes. 6. Whether there was a Batson violation in the State’s exercise of its peremptory challenges.”
2 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.