Sherrer v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably 222 Ill. App. 3d 1018 - De Fontaine v. Passalino (1991), Expedia, Inc. v. City of Columbus (2009)
25 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 263A
Relies on Pearle Optical of Monroeville, Inc. v. State Board of Examiners in Optometry · Middlebrooks v. Lonas · Gray v. Gray · Sweatman v. Roberts · Johnson v. Tribune-Herald 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]arties cannot by waiver or consent confer equity jurisdiction on a court where it is otherwise without jurisdiction. . . . [E]quitable relief is improper if the complainant has a remedy at law which is adequate, i.e., as practical and as efficient to the ends of justice and its prompt administration as the remedy in equity.”
2 later decisions 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.