Goodwin v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 2001
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McNeal v. Habib · Dameron v. Capitol House Associates Ltd. Partnership · Atkins 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once the money came into the court’s control by being deposited in the registry, the court had an independent duty to ensure that it was properly distributed. Its performance of that duty could not be affected by any act or omission of either party.”
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.