Levin v. McPhee’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2016
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · St. Amant v. Thompson · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“MePhee’s signals were clear enough to alert readers that his discussion of the fire at Rukhin’s studio contained speculation derived from the facts presented. The Court holds that, at worst a reasonable reader could conclude only that McPhee was of the opinion, based on the facts presented, that plaintiff might have been involved with the K.G.B. in causing Rukhin’s and [Ludmila’s] deaths.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levin v. McPhee““Ludmila probably rebelled and was choked when she refused to cooperate with the murderers.... They burned out the studio to cover the murder.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levin v. McPhee““Either God or the K.G.B. punished him. Was it intended that he die? It doesn’t matter. Crime and punishment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levin v. McPhee
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.