Rivers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2006
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder v. State · Fitzgerald v. Virginia · 403 So. 2d 936 - Odom v. State · Evans v. Mississippi
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is a well established principle of law in this state that an otherwise qualified witness who is not a medical expert can testify about a person's mental condition, provided the testimony is based on personal knowledge or observation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to sustain a sentence of death following a jury recommendation of life, the facts suggesting a sentence of death should be so clear and convincing that virtually no reasonable person could differ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“direct evidence as to motive or at least very strong inference from the circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Wainwright
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.