United States v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
837 F.2d 906 · 1988
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably United States v. Rivera (1990), United States v. Record (1989)
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 3142 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 951 (Controlled Substances Import and Export Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Hamling v. United States · Griffith v. Kentucky
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if evidence is admitted solely under the authority of Rule 404(b), the court must give a limiting instruction both at the time the evidence is admitted and in the general charge.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the Sixth Amendment and Due Process Clauses of the United States Constitution require that an indictment charging a continuing criminal enterprise must allege all offenses to be used at trial, thus showing that facts concerning such offenses were presented to the grand jury, in order for evidence of such offenses to be admissible at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]n order for evidence to be admissible under Rule 404(b) there must be a substantial need for the probative value of the evidence provided for by the other crimes.”
2 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.