State v. Rioux’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably State v. Ratchford (1999), State v. Sylvia (2005)
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 State v. Bourdeau · In Re Lamarine · Walton v. Baird · State v. Olsen · State v. Oliveira
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a probation-violation inquiry turns on a determination of credibility * * * and the hearing justice, after considering all the evidence, accepts one version of events for plausible reasons stated and rationally rejects another version, we can safely conclude that the hearing justice did not act unreasonably or arbitrarily in finding that a probation violation has occurred.” State v. Rioux, 708 A.2d 895, 898 (R.I.1998); see also Sylvia, 871 A.2d at 957 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bouffard · State v. Waite““When a probation-violation inquiry turns on a determination of credibility, * * * and the hearing justice, after considering all the evidence, accepts one version of events for plausible reasons stated and rationally rejects another version, we can safely conclude that the hearing justice did not act unreasonably or arbitrarily in finding that a probation violation has occurred.” Rioux, 708 A.2d at 898 (citing State v. Gilroy, 688 A.2d 858 , 859 (R.I.1997); State v. Sikhaolouanglath, 683 A.2d 376, 378 (R.I. 1996)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sylvia
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.