Rivers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1984
18 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 McDonald v. State · Roe v. State · McNeil v. State · Folks v. State · Synes 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is next contended by the State that it was within the province of the jury from all the evidence, under appropriate instructions by the trial court, to determine the guilt or innocence of Ralph Rivers. We agree with this salutary principle of law, but if the State fails to prove the material allegations of an information and the issues are submitted to a jury and a verdict of guilt found, it is fundamental that the jury passing upon the facts was actuated by motives or reasons dehors the record.””
1 later decision 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.