State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably 113 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Anderson (1986), State v. Wade (1979)
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 State v. Schantz · State v. Owen · State v. Eisenstein · Lawrence v. State · State v. Woolery
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]o. allow a psychiatrist as an expert witness to answer without any explanation . . . would impart a meaningless conclusion to the jury. The jury must be given an opportunity to evaluate the expert’s conclusion by his testimony as to what matters he took into consideration to reach it.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"We have held that as a predicate for the opinion of a non-expert witness as to the sanity or insanity of a person whose mental condition is in issue the witnesses must state facts, circumstances, acts, conversations and conduct of the person whose sanity is in question upon which he bases his opinion. Wigley v. Whitten, 78 Ariz. 88 , 276 P.2d 517 (1954); State v. Eisenstein, 72 Ariz. 320 , 235 P.2d 1011 (1951). * * * * * * * * * "The defendant also assigns as error the fact that the court permitted the police officer who obtained a confession from the defendant and who had seen him only a short time, to testify that in his opinion the defendant was sane. The trial court properly allowed in such testimony for the reasons discussed above." 99 Ariz. at 51, 406 P.2d at 402 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robison · State v. Robison““ * * * That rule is completely disregarded, however, when the defense is insanity. Under such a defense defendant is permitted to give to the jury his personal history and in doing so he is not restricted to any particular acts or conduct. If he open that field of inquiry for the purpose of showing he was insane when he committed the act, the state may also explore the same field and present to the jury any pertinent discovery not disclosed by the defendant. The rule is stated by Wigmore on Evidence, 3d Ed., Vol. 1, Section 228, as follows: ‘The first and fundamental rule, then, will be that any and all conduct of the person is admissible in evidence. There is no restriction as to the kind of conduct. There can be none; for if a specific act does not indicate insanity it may indicate sanity. It will certainly throw light one way or the other upon the issue. “Upon this I believe that no difference of opinion will be found to exist,” said Mr. Justice Patteson, in a celebrated case, “as to the principle on which such evidence is admissible: Every act of the party’s life is relevant to the issue.” There can be no escape from this consequence. There is no distinction in kind (whatever there may be in degree) between one or another piece of conduct as evidence to be considered; some inference is always possible.’ ” (Emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision 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.