Riggins v. Rees’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.3d 732 · 1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2013
5 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Ake v. Oklahoma · Ross v. Moffitt · Britt v. North Carolina
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“identified two factors that are relevant to the determination of need: (1) the value of the transcript to the defendant in connection with the appeal or trial for which it is sought, and (2) the availability of alternative devices that would fulfill the same functions as a transcript.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Griffin and its progeny command that a State must 'provide indigent prisoners with the basic tools of an adequate defense or appeal, when those tools are available for a price to other prisoners.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Greene v. Brigano“Our cases have consistently recognized the value to a defendant of a transcript of prior proceedings, without requiring a showing of need tailored to the facts of the particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Greene v. Brigano
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.