Delaney v. . Flood’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
2 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1996 · most notably Truax v. Corrigan (1921), Municipal Gas Co. v. Public Service Commission (1919)
2 district · 67 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 Attorney-General v. Utica Insurance · Davis v. American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Cranford v. . Tyrrell. · People Ex Rel. Stearns v. . Marr · Paulk v. Mayor of Sycamore
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“■ “If equity will not intervene in behalf of a concededly lawful business of a fixed and unchanging character, to prevent the criminal prosecution of some alleged unlawful act in its conduct, how can such intervention be justified in a case where the business itself, even when lawfully conducted, exists by mere sufferance of law, or where it is of such a character that it may be lawful or unlawful at the will of him who conducts it? Such a situation as is presented in the case at bar. is one which, in its very nature, cannot be adequately dealt with by a court of equity. What might be a trespass at one instant of time may be a perfectly justifiable and necessary act at another.” (Delaney v. Flood, 183 N. Y. 323, 329 , 76 N. E. 209 , 2 L. R. A., n. s., 678.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Randolph v. Kensler
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.