People v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 267 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 312 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green (1980), State v. Logan (1979)
28 federal appellate · 267 state decisions — followed in 31 states
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 Chatwin v. United States · United States v. Maloney · People v. Florio · United States v. Tucker · People v. Hope
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 312 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)t is unlikely that these restraints, sometimes accompanied by asportation, which are incidents to other crimes and have long been treated as integral parts of other crimes, were intended by the Legislature in framing its broad definition of kidnapping, even though kidnapping might sometimes be spelled out literally from the statutory words.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“. the movement of the automobile, which was itself the situs of the robbery, was not essentially different in relation to the robbery than would be the tying up of the victim in a bank and his movement into another room. In essence, the crime remained a robbery.”
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.