People v. Griggs’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 1988 · most notably 3 Cal. 3d 595 - People v. West (1970), 4 Cal. 3d 55 - People v. Ribero (1971)
34 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 People v. Miller · People v. Burkhart · People v. Hower · People v. Bostic
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On application of the defendant at any time before judgment the court may, and in case of a defendant who appeared without counsel at the time of the plea the court must, for good cause shown, permit the plea of guilty to he withdrawn and a plea of not guilty substituted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Francis“when insanity is the result of long continued intoxication, it affects responsibility in the same way as insanity which has been produced by any other cause.”
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.