Levine v. Berman’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.2d 440 · 1949
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2012
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. · Boston & M. R. R. v. Bentubo · John S. Doane Co. v. Martin · Van Doren v. Van Doren Laundry Service, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* -X- -X- * * * Congress has laid down no yardstick by which to measure the damages recoverable by a person who has been wrongfully refused restoration to his former position. Such being the case, the right to recover as well as to the extent must be determined by the ordinary rules controlling in any other kind of action where damages are sought as a result of the wrongful act of the other party. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[u]nder the general rule of damages, where one is injured or damaged by the wrongful act of another, he is bound to exercise reasonable care and diligence in mitigating the resulting damage....”
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.