Rivers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Stovall v. Denno · Griffith v. Kentucky · Harper v. Virginia Department of Taxation · Great Northern Ry Co v. Sunburst Oil & Refining Co
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he criteria guiding resolution of the [retroactivity] question implicate (a) the purpose to be served by the new standards, (b) the extent of the reliance by law enforcement authorities on the old standards, and (c) the effect on the administration of justice of a retroactive application of the new standards.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. State
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.