Rivera v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
57 F.2d 816 · 1932
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Hyde v. United States · Williamson v. United States · United States v. William Rabinowich · Rosen v. United States · Heike 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The place of the conspiracy is immaterial provided an overt act is committed within the jurisdiction of the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““An indictment is sufficient that charges a statutory crime substantially in the words of the statute. Jelke v. United States [7 Cir.] 255 F. 264 . A crime which is the 0 ] ect of the conspiracy need not be described with the same particularity in the indictment for conspiracy as in an indictment for such crime itself. Ford v. United States [9 Cir.] 10 F.2d 339 ; Taylor v. United States [7 Cir.] 2 F.2d 444, 446 ; Rulovitch v. United States [3 Cir.] 286 F. 315 ; Anderson v. United States [8 Cir.] 260 F. 557 . ****** “The means by which the object of the conspiracy is to be attained need not be set out in detail. Houston v. United States [9 Cir.] 217 F. 852, 857 . It is sufficient if an indictment contains a general description of the means by which the object is to be attained. Perrin v. United States [9 Cir.] 169 F. 17, 21 ; United States v. Benson [9 Cir.] 70 F. 591, 596 . ****** “In general, an indictment must contain sufficient allegations to inform the accused of the nature of the offense and sufficiently apprise him of the charges against him so that he may properly prepare his defense, and, if convicted, the judgment rendered will be a bar to another prosecution for the same offense. Rosen v. United States, 161 U.S. 29 , 16 S.Ct. 434, 480 , 40 L.Ed. 606 ; Lund v. United States [8 Cir.] 19 F.2d 46 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If two or more persons conspire either . to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.””
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.