Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 218 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 232 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably Hayes v. Florida (1985), Longobardi v. Chubb Ins. Co. of New Jersey (1990)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 218 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Enmund v. Florida · Knight v. State · Funchess v. Florida · Washington v. Strickland
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 232 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this trial was conducted unblemished by any racial slurs or inferences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“insufficient on its face to state a claim for relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.