Commonwealth v. Rivas’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
January 2022
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Ohio · Missouri v. Hunter · Ball v. United States · Williams v. United States · Morey v. Commonwealth
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decision as to which convictions to vacate may have a significant impact on the original sentencing scheme,”
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.