Rivas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 175th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Rummel v. Estelle · Grice v. State · Evans v. State · Adamson v. Burgle · City of West Lake Hills v. Westwood Legal Defense Fund
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude that the violent nature of the crime of aggravated robbery, as defined in the penal code, is so grave a threat to public safety as to constitute a rational basis upon which the legislature may prohibit consideration of probation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. State
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.