Griffiths v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 1990 · most notably Parker v. State (1949), Jones v. State (1969)
36 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 Frazier v. State · Seifert v. State · Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis Railroad v. McDougall · Wabash Railway Co. v. Forshee · Evansville & Crawfordsville R. R. v. Snapp
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . We think that the rule concerning the corpus delicti is largely one of caution, and that where the corroborating circumstances so far supplement the confession as to make it clear that the crime charged was committed, a conviction should not be overthrown for the want of evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Kirby · Dunbar v. State““We are mindful of the rule that the extrajudicial confession of a defendant is not alone sufficient to make out the corpus delicti, and that as applied to a prosecution for larceny it is required that there must be proof of the commission of the particular larceny charged.” (My italics.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State“[W]e are of opinion that it was competent for the jury to infer that it was the bailee from whose custody the goods were stolen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mahfouz v. State
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.