Ex Parte Griggs’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2014
10 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1383 (§ 1631 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 407 (§ 207 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Wissner v. Wissner · Schlaefer v. Schlaefer · Littleton v. Littleton · Ryan v. Ryan · Horan v. Horan
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In contempt proceedings when the accused proves that he is financially unable to comply with the court’s order the burden then falls on the shoulders of the complainant to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused is financially able to comply with the decree. Sewell v. Butler, 375 So.2d 800 (Ala.Civ.App. 1979).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawler v. Ray
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.