United States v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
68 F.3d 5 · 1995
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably United States v. Lara (1999), United States v. Price (1996)
17 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Young · Mitan v. United States · Norman v. Reed · United States v. Bailey · Roy v. Gravel
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is little dispute that such information may aid in proving intent to distribute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[h]earsay statements are admissible against a defendant when it is more likely than not that he was a coconspirator of the speaker, that the conspiracy existed at the time the statements were made, and that they were made in furtherance of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“DEA agents are especially qualified, and need not be certified as experts, to testify about street value.”
1 later decision 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.