United States v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 125 · 1975
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2024
17 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2114 · 28 U.S.C. § 2112
Relies on Michigan v. Ohio · Laverick v. United States · McGee v. United States · United States v. Reid · United States v. Wolfenbarger
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“18 U.S.C. § 111 : [Assault with a Deadly Weapon] “Whoever forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in § 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties, [and] ... in the commis- sion of any such acts uses a deadly or dangerous weapon, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“18 U.S.C. § 2112 : [Robbery] "Whoever robs another of any kind or description of personal property belonging to the United States, shall be imprisoned not more than fifteen years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.