Goddard v. Goucher’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · Sanford's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Swift Company v. Hocking Valley Railway Company · T I Federal Credit Union v. DelBonis · White v. Peabody Construction Co., Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]uch stipulations are binding on the parties ... and respected by the courts, unless a court determines that to do so would be improvident or not conducive to justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It was for the judge to weigh the evidence and assess credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McLaren v. Cespedes
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.