Goddard v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2021
16 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 125 Cal. App. 3d 623 - Nelson v. Gaunt · 8 Utah 2d 42 - Bodon Ex Rel. Bodon v. Suhrmann · Kinikin v. Heupel · 27 Utah 2d 430 - Pollesche v. Transamerican Insurance Company · 12 Utah 2d 350 - Wellman v. Noble
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will presume that the discretion of the trial court was properly exercised unless the record clearly shows to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the record contains `substantial competent evidence which would support a verdict for the [moving party].'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the trial judge `cannot in good conscience permit it to stand.'”
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.