Levenson v. Mobley’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Mark V, Inc. v. Mellekas (1993), C.R. Anthony Co. v. Loretto Mall Partners (1991)
2 federal appellate · 28 district · 89 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 172 · 26 U.S.C. § 26
Relies on Bon v. Lemp · Hembree v. Quinn · Cave v. Cave · Shaeffer v. Kelton · Vickers v. North American Land Developments, Inc.
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether an ambiguity exists is a question of law to be decided by the court. This Court has held that a contract is deemed ambiguous only if it is reasonably and fairly susceptible of different constructions. The mere fact that the parties are in disagreement on construction to be given to the contract does not necessarily establish an ambiguity. In making its determination, the court must consider the agreement as a whole. Moreover, where the terms of an agreement are plainly stated, the intention of the parties must be ascertained from the language used. Absent a finding of ambiguity, provisions of a contract need only be applied, rather than construed or interpreted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.