United States v. Rivera-Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
931 F.2d 148 · 1991
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 29 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Rutledge v. United States (1996), United States v. Natanel (1991)
104 federal appellate · 29 district · 13 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3013 · 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)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Benton v. Maryland · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Missouri v. Hunter
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a case is appealed and remanded, the decision of the appellate court establishes the law of the case and it must be followed by the trial court on remand.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a decision of an appellate tribunal on a particular issue, unless vacated or set aside, governs the issue during all subsequent stages of the litigation in the nisi prius court, and thereafter on any further appeal.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“proper working relationships between trial and appellate courts and judicial economy.”
6 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.