United States v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
874 F.2d 754 · 1989
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably United States v. Rivera (1990), United States v. Helton (1991)
20 federal appellate ·
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. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Ohio Eaton v. Price · United States v. Rivera · Wilkinson ex rel. Wilkinson v. Bowen · United States v. Rivera
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Is it sufficient for an indictment that charges a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 848 simply to allege in the language of the statute “a continuing series of violations,” or do the 5th and 6th Amendments of the United States Constitution (including the right to indictment clause of the 5th Amendment) require the indictment to describe the essential facts constituting each violation relied upon to establish the series of violations?”
1 later decision 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.