Jerome Goforth v. A. L. Dutton, Warden, Georgia State Prison’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.2d 651 · 1969
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 1991 · most notably Baker v. Kaiser (1991), United States of America Ex Rel. John G. O'Brien C-8019 v. J. F. Maroney, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1970)
31 federal appellate · 2 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 Anders v. California · Douglas v. People of State of California · Seelig v. United States · Entsminger v. Iowa · Ellis v. United States
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.
“pass muster under constitutional standards relating to indigents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Amaya v. Beto
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.