State v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 1999 · most notably State v. Ebel (1932), State v. Hansen (1999)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 Gannon v. People · State v. Avery · People v. Ahrling · State v. McCarthy · State v. Calder
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence is entirely circumstantial, and in our opinion is not adequate to support the verdict; the testimony not being sufficiently strong and convincing to exclude every rational hypothesis other than the defendant's guilt. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Peschon
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.