Rivera v. Delaware’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 13 district · 164 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 345 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Patterson v. New York (1977), Walton v. Arizona (1990)
70 federal appellate · 13 district · 164 state decisions — followed in 31 states
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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Hicks v. Miranda · Leland v. Oregon · Davis v. United States
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 345 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the existence or nonexistence of legal insanity bears no necessary relationship to the existence or nonexistence of the required mental elements of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Foucha v. Louisiana
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.