People v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008
14 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Sanders v. Allen
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘For a deaf defendant... a... trial without some form of interpretive language assistance is reduced to an unintelligible and empty ritual. In an uninterpreted trial, a deaf defendant’s right to be heard in his own defense is significantly impaired, i.e., identification by the deaf defendant of factual misstatements is highly improbable and the opportunity for effective confrontation is correspondingly diminished. Furthermore, participation in defensive strategy through communication with counsel during the trial phase is critically impaired.’ ” People v. Rivera, 125 Misc. 2d 516 , _, 480 N.Y.S.2d 426, 432 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1984), quoting G. Relyea, Note, Procedural Due Process: A Deaf Defendant’s Right to Be Heard Should Encompass A Right to “Hear” Civil Trials Through Interpretation, 29 Cath. U. L. Rev. 867 , 867-68 (1980).”
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.