Levin v. Friedman’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Shoup v. Bell & Howell Co. (1989), Goldstein v. Potomac Electric Power Co. (1979)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 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 Gage v. Lewis · Leshefsky v. American EmPloyers' Insurance · Conner v. . Reeves · Poe v. Philadelphia Casualty Co. · Alberts v. American Casualty 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rule is that rights cannot be enforced in piecemeal fashion, that a single cause of action or an entire claim cannot be split up or divided and separate suits maintained for the various parts thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Speed“as soon as liability is legally imposed, as when judgment is entered, even though at that point no actual loss has been sustained and the judgment has not been paid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a promise of the indemnitor to perform a certain act or to make specified payments for the benefit of the indemnitee.”
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.