Levine v. Heffernan’s Empirical Analysis
864 F.2d 457 · 1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Lindh v. Murphy (1996), Hicks v. Brown Group, Inc. (1990)
10 federal appellate · 1 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 Buckley v. Valeo · Abood v. Detroit Board of Education · Ellis v. Brotherhood of Railway, Airline & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes · Monitor Patriot Co. v. Roy · Railway Employes' Department v. Hanson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“endangered.” 21 . Only the Supreme Court can overrule one of its own precedents. Thurston Motor Lines, Inc. v. Jordan K. Rand, Ltd., 460 U.S. 533, 535 , 103 S.Ct. 1343, 1344 , 75 L.Ed.2d 260 (1983). However,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jane L. v. Bangerter“the two essential issues relating to [the case's] precedential effect [are] whether the decision has been implicitly overruled and, if not, whether it is factually distinguishable from [the case at bar].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[l]ower courts ..., out of respect for the great doctrine of stare decisis , are ordinarily reluctant to conclude that a higher court precedent has been overruled by implication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brookens v. Acosta
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.