Levinson v. Deupree’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
233 federal appellate · 33 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 441 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson (1971), Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. (1959)
233 federal appellate · 33 district · 39 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLevinson v. Deupree (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · The Harrisburg · Western Fuel Co. v. Garcia
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 441 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is bound to enforce the obligation [or right] as it finds it, but is not `bound by the dubious and perhaps conflicting intimations on elegantia juris to be found in local decisions' and is not `imprisoned by procedural niceties relating to amendment of pleadings.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For purposes of diversity suits a federal court is, in effect, `only another court of the State.' Guaranty Trust Co. [of New York] v. York, supra, 326 U.S. at page 108, 65 S.Ct. at page 1469. The considerations that urge adjudication by the same law in all courts within a State when enforcing a right created by that State are hardly relevant for determining the rules which bar enforcement of an equitable right created not by a State legislature but by Congress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not derive from diversity of citizenship; indeed there was no such diversity. Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 , 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188, is irrelevant. The court in this case was not `in effect, only another court of the State,' Guaranty Trust Co. of New York v. York, 326 U.S. 99 , 108, 65 S.Ct. 1464, 1469, 89 L.Ed. 2079.”
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.