Goodman v. Winter’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
3 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Thompson v. . Simpson (1891), Fowler v. Alabama Iron & Steel Co. (1910)
3 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 McCormick v. Sullivant · McArthur v. Carrie's Adm'r · Kerr v. Devisees of a Moon · Harrison v. Heflin · King v. Kent's Heirs
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The courts would be more reluctant to decree the sale of an estate in remainder, or of a contingent estate, lest it might operate a sacrifice of the interests of the infant; but the jurisdiction exists, though it may be more seldom and more sparingly exercised. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“every judgment or decree must stand or fall upon the power and authority of the tribunal pronouncing it”
1 later decision 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.