Pritchett v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Beavers v. County of Walker (1994), City of Huntsville v. Miller (1958)
45 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 Yauger v. Taylor · Air Conditioning Engineers, Inc. v. Small · City of Mobile v. Farrell · Lucas v. Lucas · Foster & Creighton Co. v. Box
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The rule is general and well recognized that when an equitable cause is presented, the court will, after granting the equitable relief, proceed to do complete equity, and to that end grant incidental relief which may be awarded at law. But the rule is likewise as firmly settled that if the equitable relief sought is denied, the court cannot retain jurisdiction and grant relief available at law. There must be equitable relief as a basis for supplemental relief."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““There is another pertinent principle which recognizes the discretionary authority resting with a court of equity in granting or refusing injunctive relief in cases of this kind. As stated in Martin Bldg. Co. v. Imperial Laundry Co., 220 Ala. 90, 92 , 124 So. 82 -84: “ ‘In this jurisdiction we recognize, in cases seeking injunctive relief, the “comparative injury doctrine,” not universally accepted. Brede v. Minnesota, etc., Stone Co., 143 Minn. 374 , 173 N.W. 805 , 6 A.L.R. 1092 . As said by this court in Clifton Iron Co. v. Dye, 87 Ala. 468 , 6 So. 192 : “But it is not every case of nuisance, or continuing trespass, which a court of equity will restrain by injunction. In determining this question, the court should weigh the injury that may accrue to the one or the other party, and also to the public, by granting or refusing the injunction.’ ” “See, also, Montgomery Limestone Co. v. Bearden, 256 Ala. 269, 271, 272 , 54 So.2d 571 ; Elmore v. Ingalls, 245 Ala. 481 , 17 So.2d 674 . “In the light of the foregoing authorities we are unwilling to say that the trial court abused its discretion in denying injunctive relief.””
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.