Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 2002 MT 59 - State v. Good

State v. Good’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

68
cited by 68 later decisions
3
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

66 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Ariegwe (2007), State v. Heath (2004)

66 state decisions

350200220102020decided

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 Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · Barker v. Wingo · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Arizona v. Fulminante

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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A challenge for cause may be taken for all or any of the following reasons or for any other reason that the court determines: ... (j) having a state of mind in reference to the case or to either of the parties that would prevent the juror from acting with entire impartiality and without prejudice to the substantial rights of either party.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “coaxed recantations of admissions of bias are merely fodder for appeal.... It is not a district court's role to rehabilitate jurors whose spontaneous, and thus most reliable and honest, responses on voir dire expose a serious question about their ability to be fair and impartial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Impairment of defense is arguably the most important of the three factors to consider because a defendant's inability to adequately prepare his case undermines the fairness of the entire trial system.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.