Good v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Whitsey v. State (1990), Bower v. State (1989)
56 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 Griffin v. California · Malloy v. Hogan · Quercia v. United States · Carter v. Kentucky · Lakeside v. Oregon
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“focused on neutral or passive conduct that was not in evidence and compounded that error by using the neutral or passive conduct to make an unreasonable inference of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.