State v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1947
1 district · 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person who shall take away any female under the age of eighteen years from her father, mother, guardian or other person having legal charge of her person, without their consent, either for the purpose -of prostitution or concubinage, shall upon conviction thereof, be punished by confinement and hard labor for the term of not exceeding five years.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The information charges that, the female, Nannie Lawson, was taken away for prostitution and concubinage. In the information there is a joinder of two distinct felonies in one count. If the appellant took away the female for the purpose of prostitution, under the circumstances alleged in the information, he would be guilty of one offense; but if he took her away for the purpose of concubinage, but not for prostitution, he would be guilty of another offense. If the appellant took the female away for the purpose of prostitution, he did so for the purpose of devoting her to infamous purposes; thal is. of offering her body to indiscriminate intercourse with men. If he took her away for concubinage only, then his purpose was to cohabit with her in sexual commerce, without the authority of law or a legal marriage. Now, two or more offenses may, under proper circumstances, be joined in one information; but it must be in separate counts. Each count, as a general thing, should embrace one complete statement of a cause of action, and one count, should not include distinct offenses — at least, distinct felonies. There are many prominent exceptions to this rule, but. as tills case is not within the exceptions, they need not he noted. Wharton’s Gr. IT. and Pr. pp. 214-254 ; 1 Bishop on Or. Pro. pp. 433 -440/’”
1 later decision 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.