Godsey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Jones v. State (1996), Bignall v. State (1994)
2 federal appellate · 95 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Royster v. State · Carlsen v. State · Lugo v. State · Bell 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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"First, the lesser included offense must be included within the proof necessary to establish the offense charged. Secondly, there must be some evidence in the record that if the defendant is guilty, he is guilty of only the lesser offense." Royster, supra, at 446 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dowden v. State · Lincecum v. State“cannot be plucked out of the record and examined in a vacuum”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Appellant was not merely waving the gun around. He deliberately pulled it out, after seeing the armed officers with their guns pointed at him. He ignored their orders not to draw the gun and then to drop the gun. And, finally, he pointed the gun in such a way that it was almost as if he were ‘drawing a bead’ on [the officers]. In addition, the jury heard the evidence about appellant’s suicide wishes. The inference to be gotten from the evidence and one which supports an intent to kill, is that appellant could have decided to shoot the officers so that they would then shoot him.”
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.