Levin v. Mauro’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2006
2 federal appellate · 2 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 Eaton v. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Massachusetts Financial Services, Inc. v. Securities Investor Protection Corp. · Wynn v. Board of Assessors · Opinion of the Justices to the Senate · Araya v. McLelland
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If nothing else is clear, it is beyond serious dispute that the statutory phrase ‘not exceeding seven hundred dollars in value’ is ambiguous on its face, at least with respect to the controlling issue in this case.”
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.