46 Ala. App. 149 - Goodwin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2000
16 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 Burgett v. Texas · 38 Ala. App. 64 - Wright v. State · Burns v. Campbell · Thompson v. State · 37 Ala. App. 335 - Jackson v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Proof of conviction comes from the original court record or a certified copy thereof. No proper predicate was laid for oral proof of a secondary nature. "We judicially know of no Alabama statute making a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice evidence of a conviction in any jurisdiction. Hence, the rulings cited above were erroneous under established rules enunciated in this State at least as early as 1846 and repeated without deviation. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No person who' has been convicted in this state or elsewhere of committing or ' attempting to commit a crime of violence shall own a pistol or have one in his ' . possession or under his control.” '”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Donahay v. State“if our Legislature wants to do violence to the King's English by saying violence includes some non violence, so be it”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dunn
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.