495 So. 2d 731 - Goodwin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2006
12 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 United States v. MacDonald · Beecher v. Alabama · Smith v. State · Green v. State · 469 So. 2d 1291 - Lewis 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is not necessary that there be a formal record of a certain type of misconduct to justify the posting of armed guards. Within constitutional limits, great weight must be accorded the discretion of the trial court. The trial judge is responsible for maintaining order in his courtroom. He understands infinitely better than we what is necessary to perform his duty."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The degree of restraint necessary has historically and wisely been left to the discretion of the trial court. Faire v. State , 58 Ala. 74 (1877); Martin v. State , 51 Ala. App. 405 , 286 So.2d 80 (1973).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no reversible error . . . can be predicated on the denial of a preliminary hearing.”
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.