Rivers v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
270 F.2d 435 · 1959
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably United States v. Brady (1978), Harried v. United States (1967)
32 federal appellate · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Allen v. United States · Leland v. Oregon · Davis v. United States · Aldridge v. United States · Davis v. United States
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“their principal effect would be to inflame the jurors against the defendant because of the horror of the crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he possibility of prejudice is in itself insignificant; it is the danger of prejudice substantially outweighing the probative value of the proffered evidence that is determinative. Otherwise, [i]f the mere gruesomeness of the evidence were ground for its exclusion, then it would have to be said that the more gruesome the crime, the greater the difficulty of the prosecution in proving its case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cagle · State v. Edwards
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.