United States v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 152 · 1987
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably United States v. Moya-Gomez (1988), United States v. Sangineto-Miranda (1988)
57 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether agents reasonably feared imminent destruction of the evidence, the appropriate inquiry is whether the facts, as they appeared at the moment of entry, would lead a reasonable, experienced agent to believe that evidence might be destroyed before a warrant could be secured.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“probable cause to associate the property with criminal activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“sign on the door and heard television or radio sounds from within), and that the co-conspirator was”
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.