Griffin v. McCoach’s Empirical Analysis
313 U.S. 498 · 1941
Citation profile
223 federal appellate · 40 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 609 later decisions (53 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. (1949), Van Dusen v. Barrack (1964)
223 federal appellate · 40 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGriffin v. McCoach (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Home Ins Co v. Dick · Bradford Elec. Light Co. v. Clapper
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 609 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so contrary to the law of the forum as to subvert the forum's view of public policy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is for Texas to say whether its public policy permits a beneficiary of an insurance policy ... to recover....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.