Griffin v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Slayton v. Parrigan (1974), Hamilton v. Commonwealth (1976)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 Marshall v. Commonwealth · State v. Robinson · Slayton v. Commonwealth · Dyke v. Commonwealth · Hollandsworth v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that the deprivation of a constitutional right of a prisoner may be raised by habeas corpus.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It [the order of the lower court] suspended the execution of the sentence for all time, but upon the condition that the defendant keep the peace and not violate the law for one year. If the defendant had kept that condition, then the court was bound by that condition and could not after that year of good behavior have revoked the suspension and required the defendant to serve the sentence....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A court which has ordered a suspension of sentence undoubtedly has the power to revoke it when the defendant has failed to comply with the conditions of the suspension. However, when the accused has complied with conditions specified, he has a right to rely upon them, and the suspension will stand. The action of the court should not, under any circumstances, be arbitrary.””
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.