Levinson v. Prentice-Hall, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
868 F.2d 558 · 1989
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Rendine v. Pantzer (1995), Ford Motor Co. v. Summit Motor Products, Inc. (1991)
12 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Thornburg · Darden v. Wainwright · Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton · Woolley v. Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. · United States v. Adams
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The New Jersey Supreme Court has made clear that '[t]o warrant a punitive award, the defendant's conduct must have been wantonly reckless or malicious. There must be an intentional wrongdoing in the sense of an 'evil minded act' or an act accompanied by a wanton and willful disregard for the rights of another.'”
2 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.