Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Griffin v. State (1984), 722 So. 2d 177 - Donaldson v. State (1998)
1 federal appellate · 20 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 Proffitt v. Florida · 15 Cal. 3d 40 - Weirum v. RKO General, Inc. · Pesce v. United States · Spinkellink v. Wainwright · 365 So. 2d 701 - Castor 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shot several times over his pleas for mercy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.”
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.