State v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Fragoso v. Fell (2005), State v. Ramsey (2005)
84 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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Doyle v. Ohio · Pointer v. Texas · Douglas v. Alabama · Janson v. Christensen
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f, in a given case, the victim's state constitutional rights conflict with a defendant's federal constitutional rights to due process and effective cross-examination, the victim's rights must yield. The Supremacy Clause requires that the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution prevail over state constitutional provisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(A) To preserve and protect victims' rights to justice and due process, a victim of crime has a right: . . . . (5) To refuse an interview, deposition, or other discovery request by the defendant, the defendant's attorney, or other person acting on behalf of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a statute's language is clear and unambiguous, we apply it without resorting to other methods of statutory interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. True v. Stewart
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.