Richardson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
358 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 361 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Kersey v. Hatch (2010), Spivey v. State (2002)
358 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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Burks v. United States · Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland
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 361 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable possibility that the evidentiary facts used by the fact-finder to establish the essential elements of one offense may also have been used to establish the essential elements of a second challenged offense.”
139 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Thomas v. State · Fight v. State“No person shall be put in jeopardy twice for the same offense.”
53 later decisions quote this exact passage“conviction and punishment for an enhancement of a crime where the enhancement is imposed for the very same behavior or harm as another crime for which the defendant has been convicted and punished.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Adams v. State · Guyton 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.