State v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
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
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.
“anything is done which in any manner affects his right.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Price v. State · State v. Price“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.