Craighill v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
168 U.S. 611 · 1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1992 · most notably Newburyport Water Company v. City of Newburyport (1904), Reichelderfer v. Quinn (1932)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Bauman v. Ross · Shoemaker v. United States · Dows v. City of Chicago · Ogden City v. Armstrong · Brooklyn Park Commissioners v. Armstrong
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There can be no reason or propriety in appealing to a court of equity to restrain proceedings that are being conducted in other courts, competent to construe the statutes under which they act, and to decide every question that may arise in the course of the proceeding. To allow litigations to be thus diverted tends to the multiplication of litigation, and the production of unnecessary delay and expense — to say nothing of the unnecessary vexation to parties.””
1 later decision 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.