State v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Hartless v. State (1992), State v. Little (1993)
49 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bass · Estelle v. Smith · Bell v. United States
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“classic rule of construction of criminal statutes”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gollehon · State v. Turner“a fair warning should be given to the world in language that the common world will understand, of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed. . . . II Second, because of the seriousness of criminal penalties, and because criminal punishment usually represents the moral condemnation of the community, legislatures and not courts should defined criminal activity. This policy embodies”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when choice has to be made between two readings of what conduct Congress has made a crime, it is appropriate, before we choose the harsher alternative, to require that Congress should have spoken in language that is clear and definite.”
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.