Goodson v. Sills’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2008
6 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 320 So. 2d 533 - Johnson v. Jones-Journet · Royal Furniture Company of Baton Rouge v. Benton · 419 So. 2d 1219 - Gladstone v. American Auto. Ass'n, Inc. · Graham v. Metzler
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Assuming ... that the original judgment was legally wrong, it cannot be annulled simply for that reason.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Verdun v. Michelli““A final judgment obtained by fraud or ill practices may be annulled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Verdun v. Michelli
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.