United States v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
802 F.2d 593 · 1986
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably United States v. Rosa (1994), United States v. Rivera (1988)
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Green v. United States · Abney v. United States · United States v. Jorn · Oregon v. Kennedy · Wade v. Hunter
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent the defendant's consent, a long-standing rule establishes that retrial is barred unless there was a 'manifest necessity' for the mistrial declaration, the classic example of which is a hung jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“likely to be a material witness in the proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. People v. Schupper
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.