Longley v. McGeoch’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2002
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 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 Phelps v. McDonald · Susquehanna Fertilizer Co. v. Malone · Albert v. State ex rel. Ryan · Woodyear v. Schaefer · Dittman v. Repp
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Injunction operates in personam. If the person is within the jurisdiction it is not material that the subject-matter may be without the jurisdiction. This is the general rule, 22 Cyc. p. 906; Miller’s Equity, § 570; Phelps’ Juridical Equity, p. 307; Carroll v. Lee, 3 G. & J. 504 ; Dorsey v. Omo, 93 Md. 74 ( 48 Atl. 741 ); Phelps v. McDonald, 99 U. S. 298 .””
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.