State v. Goforth’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1999 · most notably State v. Overkamp (1983), State v. McCall (1980)
26 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 State v. Rash · Cassidy v. United States · State v. Sherrill · State v. Simmons · State v. Griffin
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the jury was unable to agree upon the punishment that duty devolved upon the court. Rule 27.03. In such circumstances the court should take into consideration not only the nature and circumstances of the offense but also the character and propensities of the offender as well as his past. . . . Among the matters in one’s past which the court should consider is the existence of a prior criminal record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crawford v. State
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.