Levy v. Kimball’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Richardson v. City and County of Honolulu (1994), In Re the Tax Appeal of Hawaiian Land Co. (1971)
31 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2678
Relies on COMBS, AUDITOR v. Cook · 11 Ill. 2d 456 - Pliakos v. Illinois Liquor Control Commission · Chun v. Park · Levy v. Kimball · United States v. Cohen
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the construction of a statute the general law is that a statute should be so interpreted to give it effect . . .‘we must start with the presumption that [the] legislature intended to enact an effective law, and it is not to be presumed that legislation is a vain effort, or a nullity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is a generally accepted rule of statutory construction that where the legislative body adopts a law of another State all changes in words and phraseology will be presumed to have been made deliberately and with a purpose to limit, qualify or enlarge the adopted law to the extent that the changes in words and phrases imply. Moreover where portions of the statute adopted are omitted the difference in phraseology . . . may have special interpretative significance. Where . . . the legislative body adopts isolated portions of the statute of another State to the exclusion of other provisions upon the same subject matter, included in the same section from which the language adopted was taken, the statute as ultimately enacted must be given effect accordingly as such exclusions were intended to limit, qualify or enlarge the portions adopted.”
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.