Liggett v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1987 · most notably Sunward Corp. v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. (1987), Shriver v. Union Stock Yards National Bank (1925)
10 federal appellate · 17 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 Dunn v. White · Dulaney v. Rogers · McKee v. Rudd · Knight v. Rawlings · People's National Bank v. Central Trust Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No action shall be brought to charge any person upon or by reason of any representation or assurance made concerning the character, conduct, credit, ability, trade or dealings of any other person, unless such representation or assurance be made in writing, and subscribed by the party to be charged thereby, or by some person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“merely because the letter preceded the injury and the injury followed hard on the heels of the letter does not establish the relation of cause and effect”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A cardinal rule of interpretation is that words not technical are taken in their ordinary and usual acceptance.”
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.