Goodell v. Tower’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2016
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 Sartwell v. Sowles · Gold v. Bissell · Mowry v. Chase · Vaughn v. Congdon · Banister v. Wakeman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The action of the officer constituted a false imprisonment of the plaintiff. It was not necessary that he should lay his hands upon him; it was sufficient that the plaintiff was within his power ' and submitted to the arrest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Covell v. McCarthy
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.