Erhardt v. Boaro’s Empirical Analysis
113 U.S. 537 · 1885
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 9 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Arrow Transportation Company v. Southern Railway Company (1963), Lawson v. United States Mining Co. (1907)
49 federal appellate · 9 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Jerome v. Ross
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was formerly the doctrine of equity, in eases of alleged trespass on land, not to restrain the use and enjoyment of the premises by the defendant when the title was in dispute, but to leave the complaining party to his remedy at law. The controversy as to the title was deemed sufficient to exclude the jurisdiction of the court. * * * This doctrine has been greatly modified in modem times, 'and it is now a common practice in cases where irremediable mischief is being done or threatened, going to the destruction of the substance of the estate, such as the extracting of ores from a mine, or the cutting down of timber, or the removal of coal, to issue an injunction, though the title to the premises be in litigation.””
7 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.