Griffin v. Aiken’s Empirical Analysis
775 F.2d 1226 · 1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Russel William Burket v. Ronald Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections (2000), State v. Fritz (1987)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Strickland v. Washington · Wong Sun v. United States · Edwards v. Arizona · Wainwright v. Sykes · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because section 16-71 [common law Rape] is subject to Article III, section 33 of the 1962 South Carolina Constitution which provides that an unmarried woman under the age of fourteen is incapable of consenting to sexual intercourse, the South Carolina Supreme Court has held that for purposes of proving rape the prosecution need only show that the defendant had sexual intercourse with a female under the age of fourteen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Toomer v. State“a review of the circumstances surrounding [the defendant's] representation reveals to us that in the same circumstances it was not unreasonable to expect that a competent lawyer could render effective assistance of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“appellate counsel has no constitutional duty to raise every nonfrivolous issue on appeal if counsel, as a matter of professional judgment, decides not to raise such issue on appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fitzgerald v. Greene
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.