State v. Godwin’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably State v. Maestas (1978), Lancaster v. People (1980)
35 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 Lehigh Valley Railroad Company v. Royal Indemnity Company and Others · Oklahoma v. Texas · State v. Beal · State v. Stewart · State v. Buck
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“, * * the element of spontaneity is . not to be determined by time alone. It is sufficient, for the statement to be substantially contemporaneous with the shocked condition, but not necessarily with the startling occurrence. * * *”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Maestas · State v. Mottola
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.