Commonwealth v. Goetzendanner’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Adoption of Hugo (1998), 33 Cal. 4th 892 - People v. Brown (2004)
31 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 Commonwealth v. Saferian · Texas v. New Mexico · State v. Kelly · Smith v. State · State v. Borrelli
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the pattern of behavioral and emotional characteristics common to the victims of battering lies beyond the ken of the ordinary juror and may properly be the subject of expert testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he crucial issue is whether the witness has sufficient education, training, experience, and familiarity with the subject matter of [her] testimony,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“adequately qualified ... to testify about the particular psychological dynamics of domestic abuse and [battered woman's syndrome],”
1 later decision 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.