State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Apodaca (1994), State v. Duffy (1998)
56 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 Maine v. Moulton · Illinois v. Perkins · Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw · Swafford v. State · Rosene v. United States
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For you to find the defendant ... guilty of felony murder, which is first degree murder, ... the state must prove to your satisfaction beyond a reasonable doubt each of the following elements of the crime: 1. The defendant_ (name of defendant) [committed] [attempted to commit] [the underlying felony] [under circumstances or in a manner dangerous to human life]; 2. [The defendant] caused the death of [the victim] during [the commission of] [the attempt to commit]_(name of felony); 3. [The defendant] intended to kill or knew that [his] [her] acts created a strong probability of death or great bodily harm[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'Kelly“Enhancement of the jury's visual acuity through use of a magnifying glass is not [improper] experimentation [resulting in the introduction of extraneous information] unless there is some indication that the magnification produced additional evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.