State v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “E. If the defendant or the defendant’s attorney comments at trial on the victim’s refusal to be interviewed, the court shall instruct the jury that the victim has the right to refuse an interview under the Arizona constitution.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Riggs · State v. Taggart

2. “A defendant’s right to remain silent springs from the constitutional safeguard against self-incrimination. It is rooted in the “distrust of self-deprecatory statements” and the desire to avoid putting a defendant in the “cruel trilemma of self-accusation, perjury or contempt.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Riggs