Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
136 federal appellate · 97 district · 758 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,287 later decisions (86 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center (1985), Stanley v. Illinois (1972)
136 federal appellate · 97 district · 758 state decisions — followed in 46 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Ferguson v. Skrupa
Cited together with Glona v. American Guarantee & Liability Insurance · Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Gomez v. Perez · Labine v. Vincent · Shapiro v. Thompson
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 1,287 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Legitimacy or illegitimacy of birth has no relation to the nature of the wrong allegedly inflicted on the mother. These children, though illegitimate, were dependent on her; she cared for them and nurtured them; they were indeed hers in the biological and in the spiritual sense; in her death they suffered wrong in the sense that any dependent would.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Art. 2315. Every act whatever of man that causes damage to another obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it. The right to recover damages to property caused by an offense or quasi offense is a property right which, on the death of the obligee, is inherited by his legal, instituted, or irregular heirs, subject to the community rights of the surviving spouse. The right to recover all other damages caused by an offense or quasi offense, if the injured person dies, shall survive for a period of one year from the death of the deceased in favor of: (1) the surviving spouse and child or children of the deceased, or either such spouse or such child or children; (2) the surviving father and mother of the deceased, or either of them, if he left no spouse or child surviving; and (3) the surviving brothers and sisters of the deceased, or any of them, if he left no spouse, child, or parent surviving. The survivors in whose favor this right of action survives may also recover the damages which they sustained through the wrongful death of the deceased. A right to recover damages under the provisions of this paragraph is a property right which, on the death of the survivor in whose favor the right of action survived, is inherited by his legal, instituted, or irregular heirs, whether suit has been instituted thereon by the survivor or not. As used in this article, the words `child', `brother', `sister', `father', and `mother' include a child, brother, sister, father, and mother, by”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chamness v. Carter
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.