Levine v. Lacy’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Landcraft Co., Inc. v. Kincaid (1980), May v. Martin (1964)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 Covington Virginian, Inc. v. Woods · Lowe v. Jacobs · Herndon v. Wickham · Hopson v. North American Ins. Co. · Cooper v. Davis
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“were adopted in the interest of expediting the maturing and hearing of cases. A defendant is warned when he is served with process as to the time within which he must make his response. He may have an extension of that time if he makes proper application and shows reasonable cause therefor. Otherwise the Rules are to be applied according to their terms.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A defendant who fails to plead to a notice of motion for judgment within the required time is in default. He is not entitled to notice, including notice to take depositions, of any further proceedings in the case. He waives trial by jury and all objections to the admissibility of evidence. The court shall, on motion of plaintiff, enter judgment for the amount appearing to the court to be due. If the relief demanded is unliquidated damages the court shall hear evidence and fix the amount thereof, unless the plaintiff demands trial by jury, in which event, a jury shall be impaneled to fix the amount of damages.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant may within twenty-one days after service on him of the notice of motion for judgment file in the clerk’s office his pleadings in response, and if he fails to file a pleading he is in default.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.