Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2024
14 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 Anders v. California · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Pennsylvania v. Finley · George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins · McCoy v. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District 1
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] full explanation of all the claims the attorney has considered and why the attorney has concluded that these claims are frivolous.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Holden v. State · In Re Bailey“[Aln indigent petitioner for post-conviction relief has a right to the effective assistance of counsel, and thus the court has a duty to independently assess the potential merits of the petitioner's case whenever the petitioner's court-appointed attorney declares that the litigation is frivolous and asks ' permission to withdraw. Rule 35.1()(2) in fact requires the trial court to perform this independent assessment. But if the attorney is permitted to file a certificate containing only the four bare assertions listed in Rule 385.1l(c)@)(B)M)-Giv) ..., it will be impossible for the trial court to perform the independent assessment required by Rul[ 8 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. State“A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding or assert or controvert an issue ... unless there is a basis for doing so that is not frivolous(.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Johnson 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.