Laws v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While it is true section 723, Rev. St. (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 583), prohibits suits in equity in federal courts where a plain, adequate, and complete repiedy at law can be had, it is also true that, construing this statute, the courts have held that the remedy at law must not only be plain and adequate, hut it must also be complete, and if the remedy at law is doubtful, difficult, not adequate to the object, not so complete as in equity, nor so efficient and practicable to the ends of justice and its prompt administration, then equity will take jurisdiction” — citing Whitehead v. Shattuck, 138 U. S. 151 , 11 Sup. Ct. 276 , 34 L. Ed. 873 ; Spokane Mill Co. v. Post (C. C.) 50 Fed. 431 ; Smith v. Am. Nat. Bank, 89 Fed. 840 , 32 C. C. A. 368 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Howard v. National Telephone Co.