Goodwin v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 1958 · most notably Weis v. City of Madison (1881), Boulden v. McIntire (1889)
58 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 City of Beardstown v. City of Virginia · Little v. Thompson · Smith v. Bettger · Hale v. . Smith · Carey v. Sheets
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever asserts a right dependent for its existence upon a negative must establish the truth of the negative by a preponderance of the evidence. This must be the rule, or it must follow that rights of which a negative”
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.