Knox County v. Harshman’s Empirical Analysis
132 U.S. 14 · 1889
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2000 · most notably Virginian Ry Co v. United States (1926), Lowell Bar Ass'n v. Loeb (1943)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Hovey v. McDonald · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · United States Harshman v. County Court of Knox Co. · Leonard v. Ozark Land Co.
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is well settled that an appeal from a decree granting, refusing, or dissolving an injunction does not disturb [the decree’s] operative effect. [Citations.] When an injunction has been dissolved it cannot be revived except by a new exercise of judicial power, and no appeal by the dissatisfied party can of itself revive it. A fortiori, the mere prosecution of am, appeal cannot operate as an injunction where none has been granted.” Knox County v. Harshman, 1889, 132 U.S. 14, 16-17 , 10 S.Ct. 8, 9 , 33 L.Ed. 249 . (Emphasis added.)”
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.