Goldsmith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 807 So. 2d 534 - Ex Parte Carter (2001), 782 So. 2d 848 - Carpenter v. State (2000)
35 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 Ex Parte Adams · Dorrough v. McKee · 597 So. 2d 759 - Burks v. State · Wilkerson v. Hagan · 674 So. 2d 1258 - Ex Parte Powell
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]andamus, and not appeal, is the proper method by which to compel the circuit court to proceed on an in forma pauperis petition.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“"in the absence of a docket fee in the amount prescribed in § 12-19-71 (3), Ala. Code 1975, or an approved in forma pauperis declaration, the petition for certiorari review was never properly before the trial court. The order dismissing the petition was a nullity."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(a) There shall be a consolidated civil filing fee, known as a docket fee, collected from a plaintiff at the time a complaint is filed in circuit court or in district court. "(b) The docket fee may be waived initially and taxed as costs at the conclusion of the case if the court finds that *Page 850 payment of the fee will constitute a substantial hardship. A verified statement of substantial hardship, signed by the plaintiff and approved by the court, shall be filed with the clerk of court ."”
2 later decisions 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.