Griffin v. Springer’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably McCotter v. Barnes (1958), Parker v. Parker (1960)
33 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 Ingram v. . Easley · Sedberry v. Parsons · McPherson v. First & Citizens National Bank of Elizabeth City · State v. . Parrott · Bryant v. Shields
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in conflict with some unyielding canon of construction, or settled rule of property, or fixed rule of law, or is repugnant to the terms of the grant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oxendine v. Lewis“The heart of a deed is the granting clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oxendine v. Lewis
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.