Riker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Middleton v. State (1998), McConnell v. State (2009)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 Dusky v. United States · Godinez v. Moran · David W. McKay v. Texas · Noram Energy Corp. v. United States · Bryant 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State made the following declaration with [defendant] present: If the Court please, I wanted to make sure that Mr. Riker also understands that the maximum punishment is of course capital punishment, the death sentence, but he may also receive either life without the possibility of parole, which of course would be enhanced — that is doubled by the deadly weapon allegation — or a punishment of life with the possibility of parole, which also would be doubled as a result of the deadly weapon enhancement, wherein the minimum parole would be after twenty calendar years. I want the Court to make sure that he fully understands those consequences. The district court then asked Riker if he understood the State’s remarks, to which he replied, “Yes, I do.” In addition, the district court told Riker that the penalty for first degree murder can be “death, life with or without the possibility.” Riker again stated that he understood these penalty options.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Little v. Crawford
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.