Griffith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably Garcia v. State (1955), State v. Nelson (1959)
53 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 Fisher v. State · Sundahl v. State · State v. Carroll · Haffke v. State · Latham 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Constitution [is a criminal defendant’s] guarantee and protection against [being forced to testify at trial] until he renounce^] it by voluntarily constituting himself [as] a witness in support of his plea in the case. When he [does] that it [is] irrevocable. He [cannot] alternatively disregard and restore immunity as he decide[s] his self-interest demand[s] or would best be benefited. A defendant in a criminal case who becomes a witness, subjects himself to the rules applicable to other witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The defendant bases a contention of prejudicial error at the trial on the fact that two witnesses were called by the State and gave rebuttal testimony without their names being endorsed on the information. It has long been the rule in this state that the requirement that the names of the witnesses for the state must be endorsed upon the information has no application to rebuttal witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pratt
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.