Goodwin v. Balkcom’s Empirical Analysis
684 F.2d 794 · 1982
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Johnson v. Commissioner of Correction (1991), Thompson v. Wainwright (1986)
79 federal appellate · 11 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the heart of effective representation is the independent duty to investigate and prepare.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he Constitution requires that there be no reasonable possibility that a juror will misunderstand the meaning and function of mitigating circumstances, i.e., that the law recognizes the existence of circumstances which in fairness or mercy may be considered as extenuating or reducing the punishment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Moore v. Kemp · Tucker v. Zant“[R]eminding a jury that the undertaking is not by choice, but in service to the public, effectively stacks the odds against the accused.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.