Rivera v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Humphreys v. State (2010), Hulett v. State (2014)
27 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Faretta v. California · Edwards v. Arizona · Jackson v. Denno · Francis v. Franklin
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the evidence was sufficient to establish the required similarity between the charged crime[] and the [assaults Neal] inflicted on [his ex-wife], the trial court did not abuse its discretion by admitting this evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neal v. State“[w]e find no merit in [Neal's] contention that the similar transaction evidence was overly prejudicial, as the trial court gave detailed limiting instructions [before] it was admitted and at the close of the case. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neal v. State
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.