United States v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
906 F.2d 319 · 1990
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 102 Ohio App. 3d 585 - State v. Carlson (1995), United States v. Hernandez (1996)
31 federal appellate · 5 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 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · In re Martin-Trigona
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the investigative methods employed should be the least intrusive means reasonably available to verify or dispel the officer's suspicion in a short period of time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[S]o long as the police are doing no more than they are legally permitted and objectively authorized to do, an arrest is constitutional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Moreover, the constitution restricts the scope of the seizure to that which is necessary to fulfill the seizure's purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.