Thomas Griffin v. Robert Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
43 U.S. 244 · 1844
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Coats v. Penrod Drilling Corp. (1995), United States v. Allred (1895)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 Chapman v. Harrison
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is Inherent in every court a power to supon ise the conduct oí its officers, and the execution of its judgments and process.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is the right and duty of the court ... to correct the irregularities of its officer and compel him to perform his duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Borntrager v. Stevas
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.