Arlington County v. White’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
21 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 151 · 26 U.S.C. § 152
Relies on Patterson v. United States · Commonwealth v. County Board of Arlington County · 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
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Virginia, the powers of boards of supervisors are fixed by statute and are limited to those conferred expressly or by necessary implication. . . . This rule is a corollary to Dillon’s Rule that municipal corporations have only those powers expressly granted, those necessarily or fairly implied therefrom, and those that are essential and indispensable.”
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.