Walter v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
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cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
August 2002
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“[n]obody imagines that the judge ... who grants the preliminary injunction would be thereby disqualified to hear the case at final hearing on pleadings and proof. Such a thing was never heard of.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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