State v. Goddard’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2021
17 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 Strickland v. Washington · Sutherland v. United States · Benner v. Ohio · State v. Walker · State v. Hamilton
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the ineffectiveness ... did not prejudice the trial's outcome.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“act[ing] under circumstances which evidenced a depraved indifference to human life ... engag[es] in conduct which creat[es] a grave risk of death to another and thereby caus[es] the death of [another].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Saunders“only when the evidence is so inconclusive or so inherently improbable that `reasonable minds must have entertained a reasonable doubt' that the defendant committed the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Strain
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.