State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Dortch v. Lugar (1971), Sumpter v. State (1974)
65 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 Davis Coal Co. v. Polland · Bedford Quarries Co. v. Bough · Sarlls, City Clerk v. State, Ex Rel. · Fountain Park Co. v. Hensler · Walters v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably and fairly interpreted so as to give [them] efficient operation, and to give effect if possible to the expressed intent of the legislature.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`... However, if these fundamental requirements are present, it has been said that classification need not be scientific, consistent, logical or exact. It is not necessary that the reason for the classification should appear on the face of the legislation. In determining the propriety of the classification the court may resort to facts that are within its judicial knowledge, contemporaneous conditions and situations of people, existing state policies, and matters of common knowledge.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`The desirability or need for legislation is entirely for the legislature to determine. The question of its wisdom in adopting a classification is a matter of no concern to the courts. The courts may determine only whether the classification is founded upon the substantial distinctions in the subject matter.'”
4 later decisions 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.