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← 298 GA 770 - Rivera v. Washington

Rivera v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

72
cited by 72 later decisions
2
states following
December 2022
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 61 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Mitchell v. Forsyth · Cameron v. Lang · Patterson v. State · 256 Ga. App. 668 - Department of Transportation v. Dupree · Scroggins v. Edmondson

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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the trial court may hear evidence and make relevant factual findings to decide the threshold issue.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “[w]here the trial judge ... certifies within ten days of entry thereof that the order, decision, or judgment is of such importance to the case that immediate review should be had.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals may thereupon, in their respective discretions, permit an appeal to be taken from the order, decision or judgment ...”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.