Levy v. Scranton’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2018
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Dunn v. Blumstein · Carrington v. Rash
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Determining whether ... discriminatory purpose was a motivating factor demands a sensitive inquiry into such circumstantial and direct evidence of intent as may be available.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court has the power to alter the class description if events subsequent to the original certification suggest that it is appropriate to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was enacted, at least in part, for the constitutionally permissible purpose of providing guidelines for determining bona fide residency”
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.