Levy v. McWilliams’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1969 · most notably Westwego Canal & Terminal Co. v. Louisiana Highway Commission (1942), State Ex Rel. Department of Highways v. Jones (1962)
31 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 La Groue v. City of New Orleans · Muldry v. Fromherz & Drennan
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We find that defendants did not retain the right to supervise the work of Wells, nor to direct him in carrying it out. No doubt they could have prevented him from using fire in the removal of the stumps had they known that he intended to do so, but they certainly had no knowledge of this intention, and the contract provided for a different method of operation.””
1 later decision 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.