Commonwealth v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Maryland v. MacOn · Bartnicki v. Vopper · Commonwealth v. Jones
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Legislature has declined to exercise its authority to overturn the court's interpretation of a statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In re Chapman
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.