Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

cited by 46 later decisions

states following

January 2018

most recently cited

46 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 533 So. 2d 1078 - Nixon v. State (1987), 487 So. 2d 1304 - Gray v. State (1986)

46 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 308 So. 2d 71 - Newell v. State · Warn v. State · 465 So. 2d 1031 - Hammond v. State · 278 So. 2d 451 - Cochran v. State · 381 So. 2d 1024 - Norman v. State

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

“they are entering into a common plan and knowingly intend to further its common purpose.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Smith v. State · Peoples v. State
“Hammond v. State, 465 So.2d 1031 (Miss. 1985), stated the rule with reference to granting directed verdicts and peremptory instructions of not guilty in criminal and civil cases as follows: The rule in regard to a peremptory instruction is the same in criminal and civil cases, the rule being that when all the evidence on behalf of the State is taken as true, together with all sound reasonable inferences that may be drawn therefrom if there is enough to support a verdict of conviction, the peremptory instruction must be denied. 465 So.2d at 1035 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 532 So. 2d 602 - Harris v. State
“[A]ll that must be shown is a concert of free will and conspiracy may be proved by acts of the parties or by circumstances as well as their agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 487 So. 2d 1304 - Gray v. State

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.