Commonwealth v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 214 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Kichline (1976), Commonwealth v. Hughes (1989)
2 federal appellate · 214 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Culombe v. Connecticut · Rogers v. Richmond · United States v. Mitchell · Commonwealth v. Futch
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 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On review, our responsibility is ‘to determine whether the record supports the factual findings of the court below and the legitimacy of the inferences and legal conclusions drawn from those findings.’ Commonwealth v. Goodwin, 460 Pa. 516, 521 , 333 A.2d 892, 895 (1975).”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... our responsibility upon review is to determine whether the record supports the factual findings of the court below and the legitimacy of the inferences and legal conclusions drawn from those findings. . . . In making this determination, we are to consider only the evidence of the prosecution’s witnesses and so much of the evidence for the defense as, fairly read in the context of the record as a whole, remains uncontradicted.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The ultimate test remains that which has been the only clearly established test in Anglo-American courts for two hundred years: the test of voluntariness. Is the confession the product of an essentially free and unconstrained choice by its maker? If it is, if he has willed to confess, it may be used against him. If it is not, if his will has been overborne and his capacity for self-determination critically impaired, the use of his confession offends due process. Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534 , 81 S.Ct. 735 , 5 L.Ed.2d 760 . The line of distinction is that at which governing self-direction is lost and compulsion, of whatever nature or however infused, propels or helps to propel the confession.” (Emphasis added). Culombe v. Connecticut, 367 U.S. 568, 602 , 81 S.Ct. 1860, 1879 , 6 L.Ed.2d 1037 (1961).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.