State v. Goree’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2000
12 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 Patton v. United States · Singer v. United States · State v. Raspberry · State v. Lang · State v. Collins
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. Had I ever seen him [the defendant] before? Q. I’m asking you whether you knew who he was. A. Yes, I knew who he was. Q. You said this is the man on your direct testimony that answered the description, correct? A. Correct. Q. And when you were out there in your so-called surveillance, you didn’t see Jerry Washington, did you? A. Never saw him in the surveillance, no sir. Q. Pardon Me? A. I never saw him in the surveillance. Q. All right. And as a matter of fact, you had a description that you were alert to at the time you went in the apartment, right? A. Plus prior to that I have seen his LB photo. [Defendant’s attorney]: Come on up now. That is stricken and I ask the jury be instructed to disregard that. THE COURT: I’ll sustain the objection. It will be stricken and the jury is instructed to disregard it. (Counsel approached the bench and the following proceedings were had:) [Defendant’s attorney]: That’s voluntary, an LB photo, that they checked out. It is not responsive and I ask a mistrial be declared. [Prosecutor]: Your Honor, I oppose the request for mistrial in this case because of the — the answer that was provided by the witness in this particular case is how do you know this guy, have you seen him before and that’s it. THE COURT: All right. It seems to me — first of all, I’m not sure that the jury would attach any significance to an LB photo. In addition to that, the granting of a mistrial is a very drastic remedy in my judgment. The fact that the officer said he”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington“By the unambiguous language of the constitution, the right is conditioned upon the assent of the court. Failure to sustain a motion to waive a jury trial is not an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dunne
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.