Mitchell v. Bland’s Empirical Analysis
241 F.2d 808 · 1957
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1975 · most notably Mitchell v. Lublin, McGaughy & Associates (1959), Mitchell v. Pidcock (1962)
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Hecht Co. v. Bowles · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · James P. Mitchell, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Hodges Contracting Company and Kenneth B. Hodges · Brown v. Hecht 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even assuming appellant’s contentions to be sound in both instances, the Court would have been justified in either granting or denying injunctive relief under the broad discretion lodged in it by accepted equitable principles. Mitchell v. Hodges Contracting Co., 5 Cir., 1956, 238 F.2d 380, 381 . “The trial Court evidently reached the conclusion that more could be accomplished towards enforcement of the law and towards bringing appellant into cooperative conformity with its provisions by withholding the drastic remedy of injunction than by using it. “The nature of injunctive relief is that it is prospective, prophylactic, preventive,- — -not punitive. By bringing about a better attitude on appellant’s part towards the Act, and his plighted purpose to obey it scrupulously and ungrudgingly, the Court below was using its equity powers in consonance with their best traditions. “The problem before the Court below did not involve litigation between two private individuals only; it related primarily to the business of the public, and the public interest was entitled to primary consideration. A labor controversy was presented to the Supreme Court in Virginian Railway Co. v. System Federation No. 40, Railway Employees, 1937, 300 U.S. 515 , at page 552, 57 S. Ct. 592 , at page 601, 81 L.Ed. 789 , when it gave expression to this principle: ‘More is involved than the settlement of a private controversy without appreciable consequences to the public * * * Courts of equity may, and frequen”
4 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.