State v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Riley v. Payne (2003), State v. Clausing (2002)
2 federal appellate · 49 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 Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · 106 Wash. 2d 176 - State v. Hughes · 110 Wash. 2d 577 - State v. Rice · 121 Wash. 2d 220 - State v. Janes · 128 Wash. 2d 896 - State v. LeFaber
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acts and conduct provoked or commenced the fight.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Riley v. Payne · State v. Wingate“"[F]ew situations come to mind where the necessity for an aggressor instruction is warranted. The theories of the case can be sufficiently argued and understood by the jury without such instruction." State v. Arthur, 42 Wash.App. 120 , 125 n. 1, 708 P.2d 1230 (1985). While an aggressor instruction should be given where called for by the evidence, an aggressor instruction impacts a defendant's claim of self-defense, which the State has the burden of disproving beyond a reasonable doubt. Accordingly, courts should use care in giving an aggressor instruction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidence of self-defense is evaluated `from the standpoint of the reasonably prudent person, knowing all the defendant knows and seeing all the defendant sees.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.