Goodman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 2010
4 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 Jameison v. State · Davidson v. State · Penley v. State · Henson v. State · Burst v. State
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mere repetition of similar crimes does not by itself warrant admission of the evidence of those crimes under the mo-dus operandi rule. In order for the modus operandi rule to serve its intended purpose, the inquiry must be, “Are these crimes so strikingly similar that one can say with reasonable certainty that one and the same person committed them?” Not only must the methodology of the two crimes be strikingly similar, but the method must be unique in ways which attribute the crimes to one person. Given the inherent similarities in all sex crimes, the common use of disguises, and the frequent late night or early morning timing of residential intrusions, we can not [sic] say that these attacks reveal a distinctive modus oper-andi.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilkerson v. State“the crimes were not connected together in any apparent manner, as all involved different victims, different property, and different locations over a period of about one month; nor were they part of a single scheme or plan to steal property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State“boxes of dolls, a musical teapot, and a cookie jar,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State
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.