Goodman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Hopkinson v. State (1981), Grabill v. State (1980)
1 federal appellate · 41 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 Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Federal Energy Administration v. Algonquin SNG, Inc. · United States v. Unicorn Enterprises, Inc. · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · 46 Ill. 2d 348 - The People v. Hairston
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Relevant evidence” means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Britton v. State · Grabill v. State“[I]ntent in criminal cases is often an element of the charged crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Swett v. State · Pena v. State“"* * * Objection should be made at the time of allegedly prejudicial comments so that the trial court will have an opportunity to take corrective action. [Citations.]" Goodman v. State, Wyo., 601 P.2d 178, 187 (1979).”
2 later decisions 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.