Riggins v. Nevada’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
306 federal appellate · 78 district · 402 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,075 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey (1992), Godinez v. Moran (1993)
306 federal appellate · 78 district · 402 state decisions — followed in 39 states
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Faretta v. California · Bell v. Wolfish · Ohio v. Roberts · Arizona v. Fulminante
Cited together with Washington v. Harper · Sell v. United States · Strickland v. Washington · Drope v. Missouri · Pate v. Robinson
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 1,075 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Competence to stand trial is rudimentary, for upon it depends the main part of those rights deemed essential to a fair trial, including the right to effective assistance of counsel, the rights to summon, to confront, and to cross-examine witnesses, and the right to testify on one’s own behalf or to remain silent without penalty for doing so.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“absent a finding of overriding justification and a determination of medical appropriateness.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“By administering medication, the State may be creating a prejudicial negative demeanor in the defendant--making him look nervous and restless, for example, or so calm or sedated as to appear bored, cold, unfeeling, and unresponsive....”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.