Goodson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2018
2 district · 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 United States v. Weston · Silks v. State · Deveroux v. State · Collins v. State · Renard 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an abuse of discretion will be found when the defendant's sentence is prejudiced from consideration of information or accusations founded on impalpable or highly suspect evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This court recognize[d] the discretion vested in the district court with regard to imposing sentence[s] on the criminals before it.”
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.