Javierre v. Central Altagracia’s Empirical Analysis
217 U.S. 502 · 1910
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 20 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2019 · most notably Federal Trade Commission v. Morton Salt Co. (1948), McKelvey v. United States (1922)
66 federal appellate · 20 district · 13 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 City of Walla Walla v. Walla Walla Water Co · United States v. Cook · Schlemmer v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Co. · Joy v. City of St Louis · Marble Company v. Ripley
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is a certain anomaly in granting the halfway relief of an injunction” against the breach of such a covenant “when the court is not prepared to enforce the performance to accomplish which indirectly is the only object of the negative decree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a suit for damages would have given adequate relief, and therefore the appellee should have been confined to its remedy at law”
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.