Ex parte Griffiths’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 1975 · most notably Parkison v. Thompson (1905), Woods v. State (1954)
26 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 Hayburn's case · United States v. Ferreira · Rees v. City of Watertown · Sanders v. State · Heine v. The Levee Commissioners
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no doubt that it is our right and our duty to give judgment upon the questions we have stated, because they directly concern the rights, powers and functions of the court, and no other tribunal can determine for us what our rights, duties and functions are under the Constitution.””
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.