James v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2021
12 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 Stewart v. State · Hickinbotham v. Williams · Meyer v. Seifert · Van Hovenberg v. Holman · Songer v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that an act enjoined also happens to be a criminal offense does-not affect the power of a court of equity to enforce its order and the criminal aspects of an act neither give nor oust equity of jurisdiction. Meyer v. Seifert, 216 Ark. 293 , 225 S. W. 2d 4 ; Hickinbotham v. Corder, 227 Ark. 713 , 301 S. W. 2d 30 . If it should be held that the imposition of a criminal penalty for violation of a law" would deprive a court of equity of jurisdiction to enforce’ its orders than a' person desiring to proceed or continue in violation of the law might be able to pay a maximum fine and, thus, make himself immune from a valid chancery court injunction. This is not and should not be the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.