State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 1995 · most notably State v. Peacock (1985), State v. Larrimore (1995)
72 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. Marshall Norman Hicks · State v. Williams · State v. Duboise · State v. Riera · State v. Freeman
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The necessity for instructing the jury as to an included crime of lesser degree than that charged arises when and only when there- is evidence from which the jury could find that, such included crime of lesser degree was committed. The presence of such evidence is the determinative factor.' " State v. Griffin, 280 N.C. 142 , 185 S.E. 2d 149 (1971); State v. Hicks, 241 N.C. 156 , 84 S.E. 2d 545 (1954).”
2 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.