Commonwealth v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Richmond v. Board of Supervisors · City of Richmond v. Confrere Club of Richmond, Virginia, Inc. · Bd. of Sup'rs of Fairfax Cty. v. Horne · City of Winchester v. Redmond · Town of South Hill v. Allen
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers, and no others: First, those granted in express words; Second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation, not simply convenient, but indispensable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.