State v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably State v. Daly (2009), State v. Bullcoming (2010)
50 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 Crawford v. Washington · Brinegar v. United States · United States v. Matlock · United States v. Jacobsen · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the federal level, the defendant's right to confront a witness, embodied in the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution, was early held not to apply to the preliminary hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A trial focuses on the ultimate issue of an accused's guilt or innocence, whereas in a pretrial hearing the focus is generally on the admissibility of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he United States Supreme Court has held that a defendant's right to confront witnesses against him is primarily a trial right . . . .”
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.