Levine v. Levine’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2004
17 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 Virginia Railway & Power Co. v. Smith & Hicks, Inc. · Hoover v. Hoover · American Locomotive Co. v. Whitlock · Mutual Life Insurance v. Brown
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was not intended that a strict compliance with the letter of the [contemporaneous objection] rule should be necessary to enable a litigant to ask [for] the consideration... of an objection or exception which was plainly and manifestly made in the trial court, and the grounds of which appear from the ruling thereon by the trial court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Riner v. Com.
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.