Goff v. Tuchscherer’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2018
15 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 Burrell v. Cornelius · John Farrell Lumber Company v. Wood · Canales v. Salinas · Goff v. Tuchscherer
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[l]etters to counsel are not the kind of documents that constitute a judgment, decision or order from which an appeal may be taken.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The time from which one counts days for the appellate steps is that day on which the judge reduces to writing the judgment, decision, or order that is the official, formal and authentic adjudication of the court upon the respective rights and claims of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Johnson“rules were adopted for the purpose of making more definite the time from which an appeal had to be perfected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Johnson
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.