Goldfuss v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1,667 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,671 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Westfield Insurance v. Galatis (2003), State v. Harper (Slip Opinion) (2020)
1,667 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · GTE Automatic Electric, Inc. v. ARC Industries, Inc. · State v. Awan · Murphy v. Carrollton Manufacturing Co. · LeFort v. Century 21-Maitland Realty Co.
Cited together with Blakemore v. Blakemore · Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · Schade v. Carnegie Body Co. · C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · State v. Thompkins
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 1,671 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In appeals of civil cases, the plain error doctrine is not favored and may be applied only in the extremely rare case involving exceptional circumstances where error, to which no objection was made at the trial court, seriously affects the basic fairness, integrity, or public reputation of the judicial process, thereby challenging the legitimacy of the underlying judicial process itself.”
214 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“those extremely rare cases where exceptional circumstances require its application to prevent a manifest miscarriage of justice, and where the error complained of, if left uncorrected, would have a material adverse effect on the character of, and public confidence in, judicial proceedings.”
90 later decisions quote this exact passage“rises to the level of challenging the legitimacy of the underlying judicial process itself.”
60 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.