Griffith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2001
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · City of New Orleans v. Dukes · Rinaldi v. Yeager · General Telephone Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · 15 Cal. 3d 921 - In Re Podesto
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notwithstanding the provisions of (a) of this section, if the offense a person has been convicted of is murder in the first degree, robbery in the first degree, kidnapping, or sexual assault in the first degree under AS 11.41.410(a)(1), he may not be released on bail either before sentencing or pending appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Stiegele v. State · Parker v. State“Release Pending Appeal. When an appeal on the merits is pending, an appeal under AS 12.30.030(b) from an order refusing bail pending appeal or imposing conditions of release pending appeal shall be in the form of a motion filed in the merit appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Stiegele v. State“the possibility of wrongful detention, the loss of income, the diminution of investigative opportunities, and the impairment of the family relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bourdon 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.