Griffin v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.2d 856 · 1987
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Dunkins v. Thigpen (1988), 575 So. 2d 1 - Berry v. State (1990)
16 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Wainwright v. Sykes · Wainwright v. Witt · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we think it is important to draw attention to the police overreaching exhibited in [Edwards].... We think that it is clear that the motivating factor behind the Edwards rule is to protect against and to discourage police interference with the free exercise of the right to counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Plazinich v. Lynaugh“are clearly indicative to us that in the absence of some police interference with the exercise of the right to counsel of the accused, the Edwards rule is to be strictly and narrowly applied[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Plazinich v. Lynaugh“settled approach to questions of waiver that requires us to give a broad, rather than narrow, interpretation to a defendant's request for counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Davis v. Puckett
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.