Commonwealth v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Kennedy (1998), Commonwealth v. Francis (2000)
66 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 Simmons v. United States · Doyle v. Ohio · Harris v. New York · United States v. Salvucci · United States v. Hale
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here, as here, a defendant voluntarily makes post-Miranda statements, and then testifies at trial, in order to expose inconsistencies and differences in testimony, a prosecutor may inquire into [and comment on] 'the omission[s] from a [defendant's] pretrial statement[s] where it would have been natural to include the omitted fact[s].'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we must consider whether, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, notwithstanding the contrary evidence presented by the [juvenile], any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A defendant who takes the witness stand ... is subject to the ordinary rigors of proper cross-examination, including questioning about prior inconsistent statements voluntarily made.”
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.