Levitt Corporation Lsi v. J Levitt’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Dial-A-Mattress Operating Corp. v. Mattress Madness, Inc. (1994), Dunning v. Tallman (1993)
2 district · 4 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 United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Hanover Star Milling Co. v. Metcalf · Magna Oil Corp. v. Bateson · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Levitt,” court and parties assume that Levitt “does not have any right to use the name 'Levitt' as a corporate title, trademark or trade name”). . Janou points out that the definition of “Personal Property” incorporates by reference a closing schedule that specifically enumerates certain assets to be purchased, but that this schedule was not attached to the APA. Janou Br. 19-20. The Court fails to see the significance of this omission. Plaintiffs do not claim that Janou’s personal name was among the enumerated assets in this schedule. The definition of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o protect the property interest of the purchaser, then, the courts will be especially alert to foreclose attempts by the seller to ‘keep for himself the essential thing he sold, and also keep the price he got for it’ .... And if the district court finds that the seller has attempted to arrogate to himself the trade reputation for which he received valuable consideration, broad remedies may be effected to restore to the plaintiff the value of his purchase.”
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.