Griffith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Martinez v. State (2000), Brooks v. State (1999)
31 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Ake v. Oklahoma · Simmons v. South Carolina · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Clewis 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ppellant filed a motion on November 1, 1995, requesting the appointment of psychiatrist Mitchell Young and psychologist Ed Friedman. The trial court granted this request, but limited the funds available to $6,000.00. According to Dr. Young’s letter to defense counsel, psychologist David Hopkinson would also be helping with the case. On November 22, 1995, appellant filed two additional motions requesting the appointment of “expert assistance.” Each of these motions specifically asked for the appointment of psychologist Dr. Theodore Blau. Appellant urged his motion be granted because Blau was needed to respond to State’s expert, FBI Special Agent Dr. Allan Brantley, who was going to use a “threat assessment technique” (apparently similar to a future dangerousness analysis) and “compare the defendant to profiles of certain serial killers and discuss [appellant’s] similarity to such individuals.” Blau was apparently needed to show why such testimony was not “scientifically validated” and should, therefore, be held inadmissible. No affidavits or other evidence of need were included with the motion. In considering the motion prior to trial, the trial judge asked appellant whether, if she granted his motion and appointed Blau, Blau was going to listen to Brantley’s testimony. Appellant responded that he did not think so. The judge also asked appellant why one of the psychologists or the psychiatrist that had already been appointed could not rebut Brantley’s testimony. Appellant r”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the context of the mitigation special issue, to show the uniqueness of the victim, the harm caused by the defendant, and as rebuttal to the defendant’s mitigating evidence, that there are numerous considerations to make in the context of Rule 403, and that such evidence should not involve comparative worth analyses.” Other issues can be raised under Mosley . Defendants may now waive altogether”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Jackson v. State
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.