Riggs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
75
cited by 75 later decisions
2
states following
October 1988
most recently cited
9 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Furman v. Georgia · Martin v. State · Barnes v. State · Rogers v. State · Cooper v. State
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘We have held on numerous occasions that when the Appellant enters a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, he opens wide the door to all evidence relating to his past behavior and his environment including prior commission of crimes.’ ” Riggs v. State, (1976) 264 Ind. 263, 270 , 342 N.E.2d 838, 843 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Resnover v. State
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