Griffin v. Wisconsin’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
721 federal appellate · 157 district · 1,143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,727 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. (1989), Maryland v. Buie (1990)
721 federal appellate · 157 district · 1,143 state decisions — followed in 44 states
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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Bell v. Wolfish · Payton v. New York · Turner v. Safley · Kolender v. Lawson
Cited together with United States v. Knights · Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. · New Jersey v. T. L. O. · National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab · Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton
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 2,727 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reduce the deterrent effect that the possibility of expeditious searches would otherwise create.”
131 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“special needs, beyond the normal need for law enforcement, make the warrant and probable-cause requirement impracticable.”
67 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“doctrine does not apply here. In Griffin, the Supreme Court upheld the warrantless search of a probationer's residence conducted pursuant to a Wisconsin regulation permitting any probation officer to search a probationer's home as long as there were”
30 later decisions 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.