Lester v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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

1. “In addition, the Ninth Circuit concluded: The rationale supporting the power of a court of equity to frame its injunctive decrees in such manner as to prevent their frustration is also the foundation for the rule that ... the courts have power to protect individual rights against unlawful and unauthorized administrative power. The power and duty to protect such rights is fundamental; it springs from the very existence of courts, and that is particularly true, where the right, as here, is a constitutional one. It is unthinkable that the court below was without power fully and effectively to protect the rights which our decision said belonged to these plaintiffs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wang Zong Xiao v. Reno

2. “The court here has done no more than to follow the recognized power of courts of equity in issuing injunctions, to make those injunctions effective by ancillary provisions, in aid of the injunction, which may require the defendant to do something.... The case, after all, was one instituted and still pending in the court below, which in issuing the injunction, had the inherent power possessed by any court of equity to make that injunction effective, and to prevent the frustration thereof.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wang Zong Xiao v. Reno