Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Conner v. McBride (2004), Wilson v. State (1998)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 Reinbold v. State · Phillips v. State · O'CONNER v. State · Murray v. State · Johnson 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We acknowledge that the determination of whether there is "any appreciable evidence of sudden heat" is often difficult to make. Thus, when the question to instruct on a lesser included offense is a close one, it is it is prudent for the trial court to give the instruction and avoid the risk of the expense and delay involved in a retrial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turner v. State · Clark v. State“any appreciable evidence of sudden heat.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]udden heat requires 'sufficient provocation to engender ... passion.' ... Sufficient provocation is demonstrated by 'anger, rage, sudden resentment, or terror that is sufficient to obscure the reason of an ordinary person, prevent deliberation and premeditation, and render the defendant incapable of cool reflection.”
1 later decision 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.