Commonwealth v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Woodward (1998), Commonwealth v. D'Amour (1999)
3 federal appellate · 44 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986)
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Terry · United States v. Tracey · United States v. Papajohn · Commonwealth v. Coleman
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“many factors which would not be relevant at trial including hearsay information about the defendant's character, behavior, and background.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] judge has considerable latitude within the framework of the applicable statute to determine the appropriate individualized sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“punishment, deterrence, protection of the public, and rehabilitation”
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.