Griffin v. Rhoton’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Petition of Public Nat Bank of New York (1928), Penton v. State (1937)
41 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 French v. Teschemaker · Fusz v. Spaunhorst · Railway Co. v. Fire Ass'n · Vahlberg v. Keaton · Cairo & Fulton Railroad v. Trout
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * A Constitutional provision may be said to be self-executing if it supplies a sufficient rule by means - of which the right given may be enjoyed and protected, or the duty imposed may be enforced; and it is not self-executing when it merely indicates principles, without laying down rules by means of which those principles may be given the force of law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCoy v. Story · Bean v. Humphrey
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.