Goldston v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 202 N.C. App. 404 - Munger v. State (2010), Hart v. State (2015)
51 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 United Steelworkers of America v. Weber · Corum v. University of North Carolina · In re Whitaker · In Re Inquiry Concerning a Judge No. 53 Peoples · North Carolina Consumers Power, Inc. v. Duke Power 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] declaratory judgment should issue (1) when [it] will serve a useful purpose in clarifying and settling the legal relations at issue, and (2) when it will terminate and afford relief from the uncertainty, insecurity and controversy giving rise to the proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.