United States v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
282 F.3d 74 · 2000
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably United States v. Campa (2008), United States v. Outen (2002)
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Nordby · United States of America v. Fabian Aguayo-Delgado · United States v. Thomas · United States v. Doggett
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because Cook could properly be sentenced to life imprisonment on the CCE count, a concurrent sentence on other counts is irrelevant to the time he will serve in prison, and we can think of no collateral consequences from such erroneous concurrent sentences that would justify vacating them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n assessing whether a defendant has received an impermissible sentence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.