Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Todd v. State (1980), Livingston v. State (1987)
62 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 Alejandro v. State · Hicks v. State · Nowlin v. State · McCarter v. State · McDaniel 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant: Ted made a mistake of running the red light. He’s guilty of running a red light. They didn’t even write him a ticket for running a red light, though. That’s the kind of officer Officer Patterson is; didn’t even write him a ticket for running a red light. State: I object, Your Honor. There is no evidence in this courtroom that says that. Appellant: The officer testified that he didn’t. State: If he’s going to testify, let him bring it up in direct, Your Honor, or put on a witness. Appellant: I’m going to object, Your Honor. It’s an indirect comment on the failure of the defendant to testify. State: I object that the man is testifying while he is doing closing, Your Honor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. State“A prosecuting attorney is permitted in his argument to draw from the facts in evidence all inferences which are reasonable, fair, and legitimate, but he may not use jury argument to get before the jury, either directly or indirectly, evidence which is outside the record. A prosecuting attorney, although free to strike hard blows, is not at liberty to strike foul ones, whether directly or indirectly. Jordan, supra, at 948 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gaddis 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.