State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably State v. Newell (2006), State v. Tison (1981)
24 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 Henry v. State of Mississippi · State v. Gonzales · State v. Richards · State v. Jackson · State v. Verdugo
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test to determine whether a witness’ mind is so unsound as to require that he be excluded as incompetent to testify is whether the witness’ mental derangement or defect is such that he is deprived of the ability to perceive the event about which he is to testify or is deprived of the ability to recollect and communicate with reference thereto. State v. Brown, 102 Ariz. 87 , 425 P.2d 112 (1967).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zimmer v. Peters““There is a legitimate State interest in the orderly presentation of suppression issues. Henry v. Mississippi, 379 U.S. 443 , 85 S.Ct. 564 , 13 L.Ed.2d 408 (1965). And see State v. Tacho, 113 Ariz. 380 , 555 P.2d 338 (1976). Suppression issues will be waived where not timely treated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Neese
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.