United States v. Rivera

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that error would be harmless where sentence on one count violated Apprendi but was imposed concurrent with a longer sentence on a second count since the improper sentence would not lengthen defendant’s term of imprisonment
• applying harmless error review to a defendant’s challenge of a sentence where the defendant had a life sentence on an unchallenged separate count
• “Because Cook could properly be sentenced to life imprisonment on the CCE count, a concurrent sentence on other counts is irrelevant to the time he will serve in prison, and we can think of no collateral consequences from such erroneous concurrent sentences that would justify vacating them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Campa
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-06-04· cited 152×
• United States v. Leroy S. Outen Rodney D. Smith Sheldon Wilford Donald Gordon Euton Christian Tyrone McFadden Herbie Noel, AKA \Wayne\
  Second Circuit· 2002-04-12· cited 151×
• United States v. Jeffrey Szur, Elaine Szur, Cary Weinstein, Vadim Kaplun, David M. Gold, Ronald D. Gray, Bertram Slutsky
  Second Circuit· 2002-05-01· cited 106×
• United States v. Whitten
  Second Circuit· 2010-06-30· cited 99×
• United States v. Clive Ulet McLean Jr.
  Second Circuit· 2002-03-28· cited 78×
• United States v. Henry
  Second Circuit· 2003-04-02· cited 65×
• United States v. Ernest Joe Ellis
  Fourth Circuit· 2003-04-25· cited 59×
• United States v. Burns
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-07-29· cited 58×
• Kassir v. United States
  Second Circuit· 2021-07-09· cited 41×
• United States v. Rivera
  Second Circuit· 2002-02-19· cited 12×
• Peralta-Basilio v. Hill
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2005-12-28· cited 10×
• Oceana, Inc. v. Pritzker
  District of Columbia· 2017-08-24· cited 2×
• United States v. Gary Friedman
  Second Circuit· 2002-08-06
• United States v. Ellis
  Fourth Circuit· 2003-04-25
• United States v. Philmon Chambers
  Eleventh Circuit· 2025-10-23

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
• United States v. Fabian Aguayo-Delgado
  Eighth Circuit· 2000-07-18· cited 382×
• United States v. Kayle Nordby
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-09-11· cited 377×
• United States v. Doggett
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-10-09· cited 333×
• United States v. Ramse Thomas
  Second Circuit· 2001-12-12· cited 310×
• United States v. Wendell Nance, Sr.
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-01-24· cited 228×
• United States v. Samuel O. White, Luis Noel Cruz, AKA Danny Cruz
  Second Circuit· 2001-02-14· cited 146×
• United States of America v. Carless Jones
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-12-19· cited 118×
• United States v. Adalberto Garcia
  Second Circuit· 2001-02-20· cited 89×
• United States v. Angle
  Fourth Circuit· 2000-10-12· cited 81×
• United States v. Nancy Jo Rebmann
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-08-28· cited 76×
• United States v. Thomas Fitzgerald
  Second Circuit· 2000-11-15· cited 40×
• United States v. James W. Miller
  Second Circuit· 1957-10-01· cited 36×
• Virginia v. Reno
  Supreme Court· 2001-01-08· cited 28×