Riva v. Commonwealth of MA’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
24 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 766 F. Supp. 2d 16 - Mead v. Holder (2011), State v. Wilburn (2021)
24 district · 6 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
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] litigant seeking shelter behind a ripeness defense must demonstrate more than a theoretical possibility that harm may be averted. The demise of a party or the repeal of a statute will always be possible in any case of delayed enforcement, yet it is well settled that a time delay, without more, will not render a claim of statutory invalidity unripe if the application of the statute is otherwise sufficiently probable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a statutory construction case, the beginning point must be the language of the statute, and when a statute speaks with clarity to an issue judicial inquiry into the statute’s meaning, in all but the most extraordinary circumstance, is finished.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Courts are more likely to find a claim ripe if it is of an intrinsically legal nature, and less likely to do so if the absence of a concrete factual situation seriously inhibits the weighing of competing interests.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.