37 Colo. App. 4 - People v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably People v. Gonzales (1983), People v. Freeman (1983)
40 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 Gallegos v. People · Ruark v. People · Schwickrath v. People · Beaulieu v. State · State v. Lopez
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[an alleged error or irregularity ... in judicial proceedings leading to conviction and confinement does not so invalidate the judgment and the confinement as to justify escape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Lanzieri“[E]vidence of a prior conviction is an essential element of the crime of escape after conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Sa'Ra“[a] prisoner's remedy is to seek judicial relief from the claimed illegal incarceration,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Lanzieri
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.