Goodman v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Mobil Coal Producing, Inc. v. Parks (1985), McIlravy v. Kerr-McGee Coal Corp. (2000)
8 federal appellate · 28 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 Holly Sugar Corp. v. Fritzler · Bosler v. Coble · Starr v. Holck · Leet v. Joder · Bonn v. Summers
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n case of doubt as to the meaning of an instrument, the doubt will be resolved against the scrivener . . . .”
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.