Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

cited by 53 later decisions

cited 1 times by the Supreme Court

states following

July 2008

most recently cited

51 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2008 · most notably Cooper v. Oklahoma (1996), 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996)

51 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 Drope v. Missouri · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 437 So. 2d 19 - Box v. State · Johnson v. State · 471 So. 2d 332 - Cabello 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“an elementary and long established principle of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 515 So. 2d 860 - Monroe v. State · 552 So. 2d 841 - Shook v. State
“... this Court has characterized commenting on a defendant's failure to testify as violating "an elementary and long established principle of law." West v. State, 485 So.2d 681, 687 (Miss. 1985) (citations omitted). Further, since the criminal defendant's right not to testify on his own behalf is protected by both the State and the United States Constitutions, we are not precluded from reviewing alleged constitutional violations even though defense counsel fails to make contemporaneous objections. Griffin v. State, 504 So.2d 186, 193 (Miss. 1987), Monroe, 515 So.2d at 864 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 515 So. 2d 860 - Monroe v. State · 525 So. 2d 1300 - Livingston v. State
“Both sides are afforded wide latitude in their final arguments to the jury so long as they do not argue some impermissible factor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State · 551 So. 2d 77 - Minnick 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.