Griffith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably State v. Smith (2000), Powell v. State (1998)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Kress v. United States · State v. Heinrich · Flood v. State · State v. Crawford
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not a proper function for any court to judicially repeal laws on purely sociological considerations[Powell] would do better to address ... the General Assembly for it to determine if modern mores require the alteration or expunction of sodomy statutes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · Powell v. State“with the sexual organs, or with the mouth,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith
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.