State v. Rivers’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Stenson (1997), State v. Thomas (2004)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 State v. Le Pitre · 5 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Furth
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Washington law establishes that sentence enhancement allegations must be formally pled, proved beyond a reasonable doubt and, unless the right is waived, proved to a jury.... Defendant Rivers enjoyed each of these constitutional protections. Br. of Resp't at 37. See Manussier, 129 Wash.2d 685 , 921 P.2d 473 (1996) (Madsen, J., dissenting).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Rivers
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.