Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 1991 · most notably Jones v. State (1913), Moulton v. State (1917)
59 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 Moon's Adm'r v. Crowder · Long v. State · Williams v. State · Barnes v. State · Wesley 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Any statement by the court, however-unintentional, made in the presence of' the jury, calculated to control the jury in its consideration of the weight to be-given to testimony, will work a reversal,, unless it be clearly shown that such remarks have been explained and excluded’ from them. It may be thought that the-criticism of the court is too restricted and" technical; but the principle involved is of such paramount importance it would' be dangerous to permit the least infringement of the rule to pass without correction. The separate province of the court- and of the jury must be jealously guarded, carefully recognized and preserved’.. It is an “anchor sure and steadfast” to protect those on trial for a violation of law, and to restrain the courts from the exercise of undue influence upon the juries, to whom is committed the important and exclusive right of weighing the evidence.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.