State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably State v. Beach (2003), 10 Kan. App. 2d 62 - State v. Maxwell (1984)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 State v. Woods · State v. Schriner · State v. Nix · State v. Clingerman · State v. Sparks
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A ‘sale’ of drugs is given a much wider meaning than a ‘sale’ in the context of commercial law. Questions of the possession and passing of legal title, the existence of consideration, and who possessed the drugs sold are not regarded. A drug ‘sale’ encompasses such transactions as barter, exchange or gift, or offer therefor. [Citations omitted.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Donaldson
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.