Sherry v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1947 · most notably Truax v. Corrigan (1921), Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company
5 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Walker v. Cronin · Boston Diatite Co. v. Florence Manufacturing 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The wrong is not, as argued by the defendant’s counsel, a libel upon tile plaintiff’s business. It is not found that the inscriptions upon the banner were false, nor do they appear to have been in disparagement of the plaintiff’s business. The scheme in pursuance of which the banners were 'displayed or maintained was to injure, plaintiff’s business, not by defaming it to the public, but by intimidating workmen so as to deter them from keeping or making engagements with the plaintiff. The banner was a standing menace to all who were or wished to be in the employment of the plaintiff to deter them from entering plaintiff’s premises. Maintaining it was a eontin nous unlawful act, injurious to plaintiff’s business and property, and was a nuisance such as a court of equity will grant relief against.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.