Goodwin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Camargo v. State (1997), Jones v. State (2002)
58 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Roberts v. Louisiana · Hollingsworth v. State · United States v. Brown
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant also sought to contradict the testimony of Roberts on collateral matters pertaining to conduct of Roberts on wholly unrelated occasions such as an alleged criminal act of Roberts in 1969, his alleged smoking of marijuana in the past, his alleged removal from a college for possession of alcohol, and alleged threats by him to other persons. This testimony was not admissible, although cross-examination on those subjects was proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vanderpool v. State“In cases tried after this date [July 3,1978], we will not consider an assertion of error in the verdict form, when the issue has not been raised in the trial court in any manner or some adequate reason for doing so is disclosed by the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Camargo v. State
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.