Griffin v. California’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2,719 federal appellate · 217 district · 5,386 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9,800 later decisions (206 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Anders v. California (1967)
2,719 federal appellate · 217 district · 5,386 state decisions — followed in 50 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3481
Relies on Pointer v. Texas · Malloy v. Hogan · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor
Cited together with Chapman v. State of California · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Tehan v. United States Ex Rel. Shott · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Malloy v. Hogan
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 9,800 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a penalty imposed by courts for exercising a constitutional privilege.”
75 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“forbids either comment by the prosecution on the accused's silence or instructions by the court that such silence is evidence of guilt.”
73 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.