Griffith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1998
12 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 Fields v. State · Smith v. State · People v. . Downs · Vanderford v. State · Davis 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the asserted .. . complaint, being dependent for its proof solely upon the testimony of the female, did not constitute a corroboration of this witness.” Griffith v. State, 176 Ga. 547 (3) ( 168 SE 235 ); but see Wesley v. State, 225 Ga. 22 (1) ( 165 SE2d 719 ). A more comprehensive test was set forth in Wright v. State, 184 Ga. 62, 67 (4) ( 190 SE 663 ), where it was held:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.