Commonwealth v. Rivers

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “theft of services . . . [is] not . . . considered a criminal offense in the absence of special legislation”
• no larceny where the defendant dumped waste in a landfill without paying a town fee, because the town parted with no property
• “theft of services . . . [is] not . . . considered a criminal offense in the absence of special legislation”
• money owed to town for use of landfill was not larceny

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Geane
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-03-13· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Cheromcka
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-07-19· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Mills
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-04-19· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Alvarez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-09-02· cited 3×
• Rochlis v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2020-01-14

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-06-06· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-12· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Yourawski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-08-19· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Engleman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1957-05-09· cited 7×