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← 336 Utah 13 - State v. Rivera

State v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Ramirez · State v. James · State v. Long · State v. Anderson · State v. Pledger

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

  1. “[A]ny conflicts in [the witness's] description of [defendant's] height, the brand of his shoes, or the details of his hat were not significant enough to make her identification entirely unreliable.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “properly left the resolution of such conflicts for the jury,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[o]therwise, no victim of a violent crime could ever meet this factor”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.