Harris v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1985
15 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 McKeever v. Washington Heights Realty Corp. · Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Robertson · Walker v. Warden · McCabe v. McCabe · Phillips Roofing Co. v. Maryland Broadcasting Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there is a prayer for general relief and the specific relief cannot be granted, relief may be granted under the general prayer suitable to the peculiar nature of the case, and when a court of equity had once rightly assumed the jurisdiction it will retain its jurisdiction in order to settle all questions that might arise out of the subject in controversy and give complainants complete relief, even in those respects in which it' would not have had jurisdiction originally, thereby preventing a number of conflicting proceedings concerning the same subject.”
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.