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← 2005 MT 124 - State v. Riggs

State v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

55
cited by 55 later decisions
1
states following
December 2025
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Matt (2008), State v. Berosik (2009)

2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions

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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 Illinois v. Allen · United States v. Gagnon · State v. Harris · Butte Community Union v. Lewis · State v. Weldele

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

  1. “anything is done which in any manner affects his right.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “It is not sufficient for a criminal defendant to prove that he will face some prejudice as a result of a joint trial, or that he stands a better chance of acquittal if separate trials are held. Rather, a criminal defendant must prove that the prejudice is so great as to prevent a fair trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.