State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
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
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.
“use of unlawful force against another causing bodily injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonably warrant suspicion of criminal conduct”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thurlow · State v. Fillion“(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.