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Goddard v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
2
states following
October 2011
most recently cited

32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably Wainwright v. State (1986), Commonwealth v. Robinson (1981)

32 state decisions

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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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Patterson v. New York · Speiser v. Randall

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The defendant may produce whatever evidence he has tending to negate the existence of any element of the offense, and, if the court finds that a reasonable juror might believe that evidence, the defendant is entitled to a jury instruction that the jury must consider whether the evidence raises a reasonable doubt as to the defendant's guilt.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wyant v. State · Davis v. State
  2. “When a defense declared by this Criminal Code or by another statute to be an affirmative defense is raised at trial, the defendant has the burden of establishing it by a preponderance of the evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wyant v. State
  3. “The phrase `due process of law' in the federal Constitution and the phrase `law of the land', as used in the State Constitution have substantially the same meaning.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hammond 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.