State v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
255 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 257 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably State v. Smith (2004), State v. NICK R. (2009)
255 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 Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos · Sims v. Sims · State v. Rowell · Kelly Inn No. 102, Inc. v. Kapnison · State Ex Rel. Klineline v. Blackhurst
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 257 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a statute contains language which is clear and unambiguous, we must give effect to that language and refrain from further statutory interpretation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Roeper · State v. Trujillo“a statutory subsection ... must be considered in reference to the statute as a whole.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Finally, while we would be exceeding the bounds of our role as an appellate court by second-guessing the clear policy of the Legislature, when the statute is ambiguous, we may nonetheless consider the policy implications of the various constructions of the statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Vest · State v. Tafoya
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.