Riley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Barclay v. Florida (1983), 10 Cal. 4th 764 - People v. Stanley (1995)
3 federal appellate · 108 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wingo v. Wedding · 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder v. State · 337 So. 2d 783 - Provence v. State · 346 So. 2d 998 - Elledge 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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the mere fact of a death is not enough to invoke this factor when the victim is not a law enforcement official. Proof of the requisite intent to avoid arrest and detection must be very strong in these cases.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. Both murders were committed by the Defendant while he was on parole and while he was actually a fugitive from justice. 2. The Defendant does have a significant history of prior criminal activity involving the use or threat of violence to the person of another. The Defendant was convicted of the crime of Assault with Intent to Commit Rape on December 28th, 1967 in Dade County, Florida and was sentenced to five years in State Prison. The Defendant was convicted of the crime of Crime Against Nature in Case # 67-5285A in Dade County on December 28th, 1967 and was sentenced to five years imprisonment to be served consecutively with Case # 67-5284A. In Case # 67-5284A, the Defendant, JESSIE JOSEPH TAFERO, was found guilty of Breaking and Entering an Apartment Dwelling and Assaulting Persons Lawfully Therein, and he was sentenced to five years imprisonment on December 28th, 1967. * * * * * . The Murders were committed by MR. TAFERO for the purpose of avoiding or preventing lawful arrest or effecting an escape from custody. Evidence presented to this Court indicated beyond any reasonable doubt that MR. TAFERO was on parole and he had indicated to his friends that he would never again go back to prison and that this desire to avoid any future imprisonment was one of the reasons that MR. TAFERO was personally armed with an automatic pistol on most occasions. 5. The Murders were committed to hinder the lawful enforcement of the laws of this State. The victims of these murders, two la”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[w]hile this suggestion is novel, we have given it full consideration and find no compulsion in law or logic to so structure trials. We reject appellant's contention that his jury was impermissibly constituted.”
2 later decisions 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.