Goetz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably In Re West River Elec. Ass'n, Inc. (2004), Lewis & Clark Rural Water System, Inc. v. Seeba (2006)
43 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 Douglas Oil Company of California v. Petrol Stops Northwest · Mason v. United States · United States v. Mescall · Mid-Northern Oil Co. v. Walker · US West Communications, Inc. v. Public Utilities Commission
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e adhere to two primary rules of statutory construction. The first rule is that the language expressed in the statute is the paramount consideration. The second rule is that if the words and phrases in the statute have plain meaning and effect, we should simply declare their meaning and not resort to statutory construction.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Statutes are construed in pari materia when they relate to the same person or thing, to the same class of person or things, or have the same purpose or object.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The intent of a statute is determined from what the legislature said, rather than what the courts think it should have said, and the court must confine itself to the language used. Words and phrases in a statute must be given their plain meaning and effect. When the language of a statute is clear, certain and unambiguous, there is no reason for construction, and the Court's only function is to declare the meaning of the statute as clearly expressed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moss
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.