Godina v. OSWALD’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably In No. 85-5751 (1986), United States v. Gleneagles Investment Co. (1983)
5 federal appellate · 29 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 Queen-Favorite B. & L. Ass'n v. Burstein · Jarvis v. Bell · Sheffit v. Koff · U.S. A. Ex Rel. Marcus v. Morris Et Ux.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he niceties of procedure and pleading make fine intelligence games for lawyers but should never be used to deny ultimate justice. This is the reason for our modern approach to rules of civil procedure.”
2 later decisions 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.