United States v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
224 F.2d 88 · 1955
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
December 1968
most recently cited
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on People v. Funk
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the wording of 21 U.S.C. § 174 the crucial facts which make this defendant a multiple offender are his three valid convictions. The sentences imposed for these convictions are of no significance, so that even if the defendant’s first sentence had been corrected so as to be wholly suspended, the ten-year sentence provided by the statute would still have been mandatory. The language of the statute is too plain to admit of doubt * * *.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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