Levine v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
261 F.2d 747 · 1958
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Holdridge v. United States (1960), Beck v. United States (1962)
84 federal appellate · 20 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)
Relies on Morissette v. United States · United States v. Dotterweich · United States v. Balint · United States v. Behrman · Carter v. United States
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“applies as well to situations where special facts present an evidentiary theory which if believed defeats the factual theory of the prosecution.”
2 later decisions 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.