Levi v. Levi’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1976
2 district · 14 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 Board of Education v. Powers · Snehoda v. First National Bank in Wichita · Bank of Denton v. Jesch · Shelley v. Sentinel Life Insurance · Chicago, Kansas & Western Railroad v. Board of Commissioners
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule of law is elemental that a right, question or fact directly put in issue and determined by a court of competent jurisdiction cannot be relitigated between the same parties in a subsequent action. . . . This rule has been applied repeatedly and in a great variety of cases.” (p. 237.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marks v. Marks
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.