Goode v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.2d 593 · 1983
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Faretta v. California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Gregg v. Georgia · Bonner v. City of Prichard
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there are certain cases and certain times when we can no longer help, we can no longer rehabilitate, and there are certain people, and Arthur Goode is one of them, that's actions demand that society respond and all we can do is exterminate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Moore v. Balkcom“would have been executed in reliance upon the recurrence factor, when all others in Florida have not been, and, pursuant to the law established in Miller, cannot be in the future.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wainwright v. Goode“guarantee society, at least as far as it relates to this man, ... that he will never again kill, maim, torture, or harm another human being.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Moore v. Balkcom
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.