Levy v. . Levy’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently March 1968 · most notably Tilden v. . Green (1891), 15 E.H. Smith 122 - Allen v. . Stevens (1899)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If there he a single postulate of the common law, established by an unbroken line of decision, it is that a trust, withoiit a certain beneficiary who can claim its enforcement, is void, whether good or bad, wise or unwise.””
3 later decisions 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.