717 So. 2d 477 - Rivera v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State (2000), 768 So. 2d 1037 - Occhicone v. State (2000)
56 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Johnson v. Mississippi · 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be well-founded and contain facts germane to the judge's undue bias, prejudice, or sympathy.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the defendant must come forward with evidence of intoxication at the time of the offense sufficient to establish that he was unable to form the intent necessary to commit the crime charged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“I am inalterably opposed to any consideration for Executive Clemency and I believe the sentence (death) should be carried out as soon as possible”
3 later decisions 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.