Godwin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 2005
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 351st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · McFarland v. State · Chambers v. State · Thomas v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would be most incongruous to permit him to object to it by claiming that it is untrustworthy and should not be received because it was not given under oath, in the presence of the trier of fact, and subject to cross-examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State
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.