State v. Goodroad’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

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.

1. “"`Alibi evidence must show that the accused could not have committed the alleged crime, because at the time of its commission he was at a place other than where such offense was committed.'" " An alibi `to be successful must cover the entire time when [appellant's] presence was required for accomplishment of the crime.... [A] purported alibi that leaves it possible for the accused to be the guilty person is no alibi at all. '" (citations omitted).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Siers v. Class · Sprik v. Class

2. “The reason for the twenty-month delay from indictment until extradition from Minnesota is attributable either to Good-road’s flight from this jurisdiction to avoid prosecution or his failure to demand disposition of the charges against him” under the IAD.). .State v. Beauchene, 541 A.2d 914, 918-19 (Me. 1988) (”[T]he State concedes that a major portion of it [the pretrial delay] resulted from the State’s negligence in not actively pursuing the return of defendant to Maine,” but holding that defendant’s”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hopper v. State