Perry Goodwin v. S. Lamont Smith, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.2d 1180 · 1971
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Nash v. Estelle (1979), Easter v. Estelle (1980)
33 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 Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Townsend v. Sain · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Carnley v. Cochran
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“waiver question is not to be resolved against petitioner . . . by resort to a 'presumption in favor of validity' "). 176 Finally, it should be noted that even in its proper context the administrative presumption of regularity cannot be used as it is by the majority, to avoid a careful examination of the statements of Files in order to see if Nash's constitutional rights were violated. The Supreme Court has stated that even where reviewing actions of administrative officers the presumption of regularity "is not to shield (an administrative official's) action from a thorough, probing, in-depth review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nash v. Estelle“The State habeas judge was not obliged to credit that testimony [of the petitioner], even though it was uncontradicted.”); Tyler v. Beto, 391 F.2d 993, 995 (5th Cir.1968) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“waiver question is not to be resolved against petitioner . . . by resort to a 'presumption in favor of validity'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nash v. Estelle
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.