Commonwealth v. Levesque’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably 208 Ill. 2d 118 - People v. Johnson (2003), Limone v. United States (2009)
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 48 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 Carroll v. United States · Commonwealth v. Welansky · Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Commonwealth v. O'DELL · Commonwealth v. Campbell
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not have a duty to take affirmative action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a defendant’s failure to exercise reasonable care to prevent the risk he created is reckless and results in death, the defendant can be convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Public policy requires that “one who creates, by his own conduct ... a grave risk of death or injury to others has a duty and obligation to alleviate the danger.” We are not faced with the situation of a mere passerby who observes a fire and fails to alert authorities; the defendants started the fire and then increased the risk of harm from that fire by allowing it to burn without taking adequate steps either to control it or to report it to the proper authorities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The defendants also assert that their conduct could not have been reckless because it was unforeseeable that such grievous harm would result to the fire fighters who responded. . . . However, an uncontrolled fire is inherently deadly to all who may come into contact with it, whether fire fighters or ordinary citizens. The defendants are charged with this knowledge."”
1 later decision 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.