561 So. 2d 536 - Rivera v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 827 So. 2d 948 - McLin v. State (2002), 970 So. 2d 312 - McDuffie v. State (2007)
64 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rodriguez v. New York · 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · Tison v. Arizona · 520 So. 2d 582 - King v. State
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where evidence tends in any way, even indirectly, to establish a reasonable doubt of defendant's guilt, it is error to deny its admission.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“Tom, I can't tell you. I don't want to go to jail. They'll kill me for what I've done.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“fear and emotional strain preceding a victim's death”
2 later decisions 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.