Riley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Naugle v. Beech Grove City Schools (2007), Sales v. State (2000)
34 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 Cherek v. United States · Jones v. West · Boyd v. North Carolina · Matter of Lawrance · Marshall 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ Modification] must serve to amend the final instructions by adding one previously omitted or correcting an erroneous one, and must be fair to the parties in the sense that it should not reflect the judge's view of factual matters.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. State · Hero v. State“'when the jury question coincides with an error or legal lacuna [gap] in the final instructions ... a response other than rereading from the body of final instructions is permissible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. State · Powell v. State“we do not presume that the legislature intended language used in the statute to be applied illogically or to bring about an unjust or absurd result[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hatcher v. State · Leslie v. State
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.