State v. Griswold’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1995 · most notably Elkins v. United States (1960), Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado (1949)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no constitutional provision was violated by permitting the jury to see the envelope. And even if it had been taken from the possession of the defendant by a trespass, as he claims, that would have been no valid objection to its admissibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trumbull“that the accused must be holden to have consented to the taking away by the officers of the said articles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trumbull“We do not, however, place our decision on this ground alone,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trumbull
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.