Laswell v. Seaton’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1963
10 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 State ex rel. Bender v. Johnston · City of Emporia v. Emporia Telephone Co. · Kroenert v. Sawyer · Wright v. Board of Education · Kelley & Lysle Milling Co. v. Schreiber
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Temporary injunction' and `restraining order' are often used synonymously. * * * The restraint which the order purports to impose, and not the name given to it, determines its true name and character.”
1 later decision 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.