Griffin v. Davies’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 550 · 1991
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Schwartz v. Celestial Seasonings, Inc. (1997), Orr v. City of Albuquerque (2005)
43 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Washington v. Texas · United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Webb v. Texas
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We will not undertake to decide issues that do not affect the outcome of a dispute.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There must be a plausible showing that an act by the government caused the loss or erosion of testimony that was both material and favorable to the defense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.