Goad v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “As long as there are no inconsistencies between the findings of fact and the actual facts, and the findings and conclusions are sufficiently specific to permit meaningful review, there is no error. When the proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law respond to each and every allegation made and when it is clear from the record that the motion court carefully examined each allegation, the verbatim adoption of the state’s proposed findings would be an appropriate option.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Wickizer