John Haffner v. Michael Dobrinski’s Empirical Analysis
215 U.S. 446 · 1910
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably Texas v. New Mexico (1987), Kansas v. Nebraska (2015)
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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 Pope Manuf'G Co v. Gormully · Hennessey v. Woolworth · Williams v. Morris · James Cathcart v. William Robinson · Nickerson v. Nickerson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]pecific performance is never demandable as a matter of absolute right, but as one which rests entirely in judicial discretion, to be exercised, it is true, according to the settled principles of equity, but not arbitrarily and capriciously, and always with reference to the facts of the particular case.”
2 later decisions 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.