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← 459 A2D 1086 - State v. Griffin

State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
4
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Mitchell (1987), State v. Braxton (1985)

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 state decisions

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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 Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · Reid v. Georgia · United States v. Harflinger · United States v. Walling

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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “use of unlawful force against another causing bodily injury.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “reasonably warrant suspicion of criminal conduct”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “(1) an intention on the part of the arresting officer presently to make an arrest; (2) a communication of that intention to the prospective arrestee; (3) an understanding of that intention by said prospective arrestee; and (4) ‘the actual or constructive seizure or detention of the person to be arrested by the one [officer] having the present power to control him.’”
    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.