State v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “any words or actions on the part of the police (other than those normally attendant to arrest and custody) that the police should know are reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response from the suspect. The latter portion of this definition focuses primarily upon the perceptions of the suspect, rather than the intent of the police_But, since the police surely cannot be held accountable for the unforeseeable results of their words or actions, the definition of interrogation can extend only to words or actions on the part ’of police officers that they should have known were reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Kooyman

2. “We review the trial court's factual findings underlying the denial of a motion to suppress for clear error, while the conclusions of law are reviewed for correctness. However, the trial court's application of the legal standard to the facts should be given a 'measure of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Burningham

3. “We review the trial court's decision to give a flight instruction for correctness.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2014 UT App 256 - State v. LoPrinzi