396 So. 2d 152 - Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2013
13 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 Buckley v. Valeo · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · United States v. O'Brien · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Roth v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the statute in question does not proscribe constitutionally protected speech or activities, but prohibits specific conduct relating to minors. `[S]tates have greater power to regulate nonverbal, physical conduct than to suppress depictions or descriptions of the same behavior.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where conduct and not merely speech is involved, we believe that the overbreadth of a statute must not only be real, but substantial as well, judged in relation to the statute's plainly legitimate sweep”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A constitutional distinction between speech and conduct is specious. Speech is conduct, and actions speak”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.