Levy v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
635 F.2d 960 · 1980
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Cash Currency Exchange, Inc. v. Shine (1985), Brandenburg v. Seidel (1988)
59 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 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 Younger v. Harris · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Burford v. Sun Oil Co.
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Hence other courts, except when called upon by the court of primary jurisdiction for assistance, are excluded from participation. This should be particularly true as to proceedings for the liquidation of insolvent insurance companies....'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'proper respect for the expertise of state officials and the expeditious and evenhanded administration of [the] state program[ ] counsels restraint,'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The ability to raise federal claims in state proceedings has always been a prerequisite to Younger abstention, and it is clear as well that abstention for purposes of judicial economy under Colorado River applies only where concurrent federal-state jurisdiction exists.”
4 later decisions 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.