Leavitt v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1993
1 federal appellate · 22 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 Scammon v. City of Chicago · Smith v. City of Omaha · Adams v. Osgood · Harmon v. City of Omaha · Whitaker v. Beach
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘for’ in that phrase means ‘during,’ and the phrase must be construed as though it read that the city council shall give notice of its sitting as a board of equalization at least during the six days immediately prior to the date of its so convening.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The notice must be first published at least thirty days before the day of sale, and continued in each successive issue of the paper up to the day of sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Notice shall be given by said commissioners by six days’ publication in the corporation newspaper.””
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.