State v. Goodman’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Begyn (1961), State v. Mayberry (1968)
47 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 Johnson v. Stevenson · Rempfer v. Deerfield Packing Corp. · Hazeltine Corp. v. Crosley Corp. · Williams v. Neely · State v. Pierce
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An office is a place in a governmental system created or recognized by the law of the state which either directly or by delegated authority assigns to the incumbent thereof the continuous performance of certain permanent public duties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“more certain, satisfying and persuasive than direct evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * The real question before the trial court at the close of the State's case was whether the evidence, viewed in its entirety, was such that the jury could properly find therefrom, beyond reasonable doubt, that the four defendants had corruptly agreed to extort moneys from the milk companies for reinstatement of their approval as dealers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.