Sims v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.2d 87 · 1947
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 15 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Granny Goose Foods, Inc. v. Brotherhood of Teamsters & Auto Truck Drivers, Local No. 70 (1974), United States of America, v. Microsoft Corporation, (2001)
100 federal appellate · 15 district · 11 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 Yakus v. United States · Morgan v. United States · Sims v. Greene · Murray Hill Restaurant, Inc. v. Thirteen Twenty One Locust, Inc. · American Mercury, Inc. v. Kiely
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o preliminary injunction shall be issued without notice to the adverse party;”
13 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.