United States v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.2d 1095 · 1979
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Horton ex rel. Horton v. Goose Creek Independent School District (1982), United States v. Serrano (1979)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 19 U.S.C. § 482 · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Lefkowitz v. Newsome · Cardwell v. Workman · United States v. Cruz · United States v. Villarreal
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'general guardians of the public peace.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is well settled that detection of the odor of marijuana furnishes probable cause to search a vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reason to believe that the vehicle had come from the border.”
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.