Levy v. Gelber’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1993
4 federal appellate · 13 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 O'Connell v. . Press Publishing Co. · Hays v. American Defense Society, Inc. · Garriga v. Richfield
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . statements, inter alia, that an attorney has exacted undue and excessive fees; that he has split these fees with a layman and that he has been disloyal to the best interests of his client are libelous per se in that they tend to injure him in his profession by imputing to him unethical and discredible practice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“civil service position. It is commonly believed that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mencher v. Chesley
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.