State v. Goddard’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably State v. Sidebottom (1988), State v. Miller (2012)
14 federal appellate · 42 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 Barker v. Wingo · Gregg v. Georgia · Linkletter v. Walker · Great Northern Ry Co v. Sunburst Oil & Refining Co · De Jonge v. Oregon
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here would be a strange twist in the criminal law if a defendant who had the benefit of the jury’s mercy could then use the resultant conviction as a basis for avoiding conviction on the higher offense charged, on the less serious offense of which he was convicted, and possibly, of any offense whatsoever.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“ascertain, whether the defendant is guilty of capital murder, murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, manslaughter, or is not guilty of any offense....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“First degree murder in Missouri requires proof of commission of a felony; capital murder does not. Therefore, first degree murder is not a lesser included offense of capital murder on their elements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Rumble v. Smith
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.