Griffin v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1970 · most notably Lawrence v. State (1925), State v. Powell (1946)
28 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 Allen v. Commonwealth · Jackson v. Commonwealth
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Another contention is, that Taylor’s proof of substantially the same declaration by decedent at another time was incompetent because of the fact that this witness said that the next day after making the statement the decedent expressed a hope that he might get well. But the authorities are clear and unanimous that a statement made under consciousness of impending death is not rendered incompetent by subsequent expression of a hope of recovery. Allen v. Commonwealth, 168 Ky. 325 , 182 S. W. 176 ; Jackson v. Commonwealth, 188 Ky. 583 , 224 S. W. 649 ; 21 Cyc. 978.””
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.