Rivera v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
July 2017
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 290th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Almanza v. State · Clewis v. State · Malik v. State · Muniz 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the appellate record in a criminal case reveals constitutional error that is subject to harmless error review, the court of appeals must reverse a judgment of conviction or punishment unless the court determines beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not contribute to the conviction or punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Castaneda 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.