Shubert v. Woodward’s Empirical Analysis
167 F. 47 · 1909
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1960 · most notably Joseph Guffey v. James a Smith (1915), Texas Co. v. Central Fuel Oil Co. (1912)
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 Joy v. City of St Louis · Marble Company v. Ripley · Smith v. Vulcan Iron Works · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Marshall · Blease v. Garlington
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The issue of an injunction, like the specific performance of a contract, rests in the judicial discretion of a court of equity. It is not a matter of right, and the application for it is addressed to the conscience of the chancellor. It is an indispensable condition of a decree for the specific performance of a contract and of the issue of an injunction against its breach that the moving party has not been guilty of a substantial violation of it himself. He who seeks equity must come into court with clean hands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The specific performance of contracts and the issuance of injunctions are not matters of right; they rest not in the arbitrary or whimsical will, but in the judicial discretion of the court, informed and guided by the established principles, rules, and practice in equity, which are advisory rather than mandatory.””
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.