Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably 534 So. 2d 329 - Hooks v. State (1987), Commonwealth v. Kostka (1976)
31 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 Knight v. State · Boswell v. State · 33 Ala. App. 557 - Cauley v. State · Walker v. State · 36 Ala. App. 59 - Carroll v. State
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In the first place, charge 8 omits all reference to duty to retreat. This omission would justify its refusal. King v. State, 233 Ala. 198 , 171 So. 254 ; Danley v. State, 27 Ala.App. 402 , 173 So. 648 ; Early v. State, 31 Ala.App. 488 , 18 So.2d 873 ; Seekers v. State, 35 Ala.App. 40 , 44 So.2d 628 ; Freeman v. State, 37 Ala.App. 623 , 74 So.2d 513 . “ ‘Refusal of the charge is further justified by its omission of any reference to freedom from fault in bringing on the difficulty. Ford v. State, 33 Ala.App. 134 , 30 So.2d 582 ; Cauley v. State, 33 Ala.App. 557 , 36 So.2d 347 ; Coleman v. State, 37 Ala.App. 406 , 69 So.2d 481 .’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We agree that there was no evidence of insanity before the court.”
1 later decision 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.