Levin v. Dalva Brothers Inc’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
39 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably In re Mercedes-Benz Tele Aid Contract Litigation (2009), 974 F. Supp. 2d 274 - De Sole v. Knoedler Gallery, LLC (2013)
39 district · 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · General Electric Co. v. Joiner · Salve Regina College v. Russell
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 702 has been interpreted liberally in favor of the admission of expert testimony.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he functional approach is 'explicitly guided by the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws (1971)'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To determine the applicable substantive law, the federal court applies the choice-of-law principles of the forum state, here, Massachusetts.”
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.