Goldsmith v. Witkowski’s Empirical Analysis
981 F.2d 697 · 1992
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably United States v. Burgos (1996), United States v. Alerre (2005)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Richardson v. Marsh · Greer v. Miller
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here, the State produced evidence that Kimbrell had actual knowledge of the presence of the cocaine. Because actual knowledge of the presence of the drug is strong evidence of intent to control its disposition or use, knowledge may be equated with or substituted for the intent element. Possession may be inferred from circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Cheeks“The presumption of cure by a court's instructions is overcome when there is an overwhelming probability that the jury will be unable to follow the court's instructions, and a strong likelihood that the effect of the [trial error] would be devastating to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether, after reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could find the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hillman v. Hinkle
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.