367 So. 2d 736 - Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
September 1982
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Colon v. State · Townsend 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is only when a judgment has been rendered in the absence of any competent evidence to support the judgment or material fundamental errors in applying the law that such a departure from the essential requirement of law will arise to justify a superior court to exercise its ancient power to issue the common law writ of certiorari.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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