Owens v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• finding standing to assert First Amendment overbreadth claim regarding a statute which restricted the right to assemble
• “It is the function of the judiciary to interpret statutes. Rewriting them is the function of the legislature.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bigelow v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-16· cited 767×
• Wicks v. City of Charlottesville
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-10-14· cited 69×
• State v. Albers
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1973-03-29· cited 32×
• Blackwell v. Virginia, Department of Taxation (In Re Blackwell)
  W.D. Virginia· 1990-05-24· cited 18×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2018-03-01· cited 13×
• Bigelow v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-09-01· cited 6×
• UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, ETC. v. Dalton
  E.D. Virginia· 1982-05-21· cited 4×
• People v. Biltsted
  Criminal Court of the City of New York· 1991-07-31· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Olin Corp.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-06-14
• Town of New Market v. Battlefield Enterprises, Inc.
  Shenandoah County Circuit Court· 1984-02-09
• Lisann v. Lisann
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2025-05-08

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cantwell v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1940-05-20· cited 3,669×
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 3,080×
• Thornhill v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1940-04-22· cited 2,351×
• Dombrowski v. Pfister
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-26· cited 2,255×
• Cox v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1965-01-18· cited 1,449×
• Thomas v. Collins
  Supreme Court· 1945-01-15· cited 1,292×
• Terminiello v. Chicago
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-13· cited 1,230×
• Hammond v. South Carolina State College
  D. South Carolina· 1967-08-31· cited 49×
• Heard v. Rizzo
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1968-06-17· cited 40×
• Caldwell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1956-10-08· cited 21×
• Heard v. Rizzo
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 10×
• Thomas v. City of Danville
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-01-16· cited 8×