Riley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Kerry Heckman, on Behalf of Themselves and All Other Persons Similarly Situated v. Williamson County (2012), Rachal v. State (1996)
35 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Adams v. Texas · Davis v. Georgia · Farris 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and oath.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sadler v. State“would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rachal 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.