Rivers v. Norfolk’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1991
2 federal appellate · 1 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 33 U.S.C. § 903 · 33 U.S.C. § 905
Relies on Land US v. Dollar · Hughes v. United States · Smith v. McNeal · Joseph Swift v. Donald a McPherson · Wade v. Rogala
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.
“It is a well-settled principle of law that, as a general rule, a dismissal for lack of jurisdiction is not ordinarily res judicata as a final decision upon the merits which would preclude a subsequent action predicated upon the same basic facts, but on new grounds. Swift v. McPherson, 232 U.S. 51 , 34 S. Ct. 239 , 58 L. Ed. 499 ; Smith v. McNeal, 109 U.S. 426 , 3 S. Ct. 319 , 27 L. Ed. 986 ; Hughes v. United States, 4 Wall. 232 , 71 U.S. 232 , 18 L. Ed. 303 . Id. at 285 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In Virginia the authorities are uniform to the effect that a demurrer goes to the heart of the case and, if sustained, it is a decision on the merits . . [and thus] a judgment rendered thereon has the effect of a judgment on the merits where there has been no amendment sought or appeal noted. Rivers, supra, 210 F. Supp. at 287 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turpin v. Lyle
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.