Ex Parte Lennon’s Empirical Analysis
166 U.S. 548 · 1897
Citation profile
139 federal appellate · 35 district · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 419 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Regal Knitwear Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (1945), Green v. United States (1958)
139 federal appellate · 35 district · 93 state decisions — followed in 23 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte Nielsen · Terry · Tennessee v. Davis · Ex Parte Tyler · Ex Parte Tobias Watkins
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 419 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To render a person amenable to an injunction, it is neither necessary that he should have been a party to the suit in which the injunction was issued, nor to have been actually served with a copy of it, so long as he appears to have had actual notice.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Hut it was clearly not beyond the power of a court of equity, which is not always limited to the restraint of a contemplated or threatened action but may even require affirmative action where the circumstances of the case demand it. Robinson v. Lord Byron, 1 Bro. C. C. 588; Hervey v. Smith, 1 Kay & Johns. 389: Beadel v. Perry, L. R. 3 Eq. 465; Whitecar v. Michenor, 37 N. J. Eq. 6 : Broome v. New York & New Jersey Telephone Co., 42 N. J. Eq. 143 , 7 Atl. 851 .””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a case arises under the constitution and laws of the United States whenever the party plaintiff sets up a right to which he is entitled under such laws, which the parties defendant deny to him, and the correct decision of the case depends upon the construction of such laws. As was said in State of Tennessee v. Davis, 100 U.S. 257 , 264, [25 L.Ed. 648]: `Cases arising under the laws of the United States are such as grow out of the legislation of congress, whether they constitute the right or privilege, or claim or protection, or defence of the party in whole or in part, by whom they are asserted.'”
4 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.