Goetz v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2005
6 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 David Muskrat v. · Tom Tong · In re Thompson · 98 W. Va. 419 - Click v. Click · Grier v. Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph Railway Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“freeman shall be taken or imprisoned ... unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Lewis
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.