Goodwin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The exhibits clearly evidence a conviction occurring shortly before the commitment order was signed on October 20, 1977 but do not show a specific date for that conviction. The evidence is at variance with the allegation in the charge, but given the presence of the other identifying characteristics of the particular instance of conviction, the variance was not material. As before, appellant was not misled in his defense of the allegation of this variance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harmon v. State

2. “"A judgment of conviction is the mental process of the judge in which he finds that the defendant in a criminal cause is guilty." 439 N.E.2d at 602 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barlow v. State