Cavanaugh v. Looney’s Empirical Analysis
248 U.S. 453 · 1919
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 58 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 308 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. (1941), Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo (1982)
67 federal appellate · 58 district · 10 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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · William Truax v. Mike Raich · Greene v. Louisville & Interurban Railroad · Home Telephone Telegraph Company v. City of Los Angeles
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 308 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n injunction should issue only where the intervention of a court of equity is essential in order effectually to protect property rights against injuries otherwise irremediable.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“threaten and are about to commence proceedings”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless in a case reasonably free from doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hawks v. Hamill
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.