People v. Goodman’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2000 · most notably In Re Appeals of Letourneau (1998), Howard v. State Department of Highways of Colorado (1973)
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. New York · People v. Friedman · Good Humor Corp. v. City of New York · People v. Arlen Service Stations, Inc.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the claim of discriminatory enforcement should not be considered as an affirmative defense to the criminal charge, to be determined together with the issue of guilt by the trier of fact, but, rather, should be addressed to the court before trial as a motion to dismiss the prosecution upon constitutional grounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[O]ne who alleges discriminatory enforcement must meet the "heavy burden" of showing "conscious, intentional discrimination" . . . or a consciously practiced pattern of discrimination . . . The conscious exercise of some selectivity in enforcement of the law is not in itself a constitutional violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.