Goodwin v. Prime’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 1981
16 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 Brown v. Brown · State v. Wood · Capen v. Skinner · Moulton's Petition · N. E. Mutual Fire Insurance v. Lisbon Manufacturing Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The petition, therefore, was addressed to the judicial discretion of the justice of the Supreme Court of Probate who should happen to hear it. The law court cannot substitute its discretion for his. When the determination of any questions rests in the judicial discretion of a court, no other court can dictate how that discretion shall be exercised, nor what decree shall be made under it. There are in such cases no established legal principles or rules by which the law court can measure the action of the sitting justice unless indeed he has plainly and unmistakably done an injustice so apparent as to be instantly visible without argument.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dupont v. Labbe
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.