People v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2024
12 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 Finch v. Connor · Bolton v. Harris · Lake v. Cameron · United States v. Ecker · People v. Milton
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant who is acquitted of a crime by successfully asserting the defense of insanity must be committed to the custody of the Department of Human Services”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Laeke“has the power to choose between two or more courses of action and is therefore not bound in all cases to select one over the other”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Merrow“Discretionary decisions will not be disturbed unless the court's action was manifestly arbitrary, unreasonable, or unfair.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.