Leonard v. Pearce’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1981
8 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 Lambert v. Alcorn · Chapman v. Kirby · Poyer v. Village of Des Plaines · Jevne & Almini v. Osgood · Landis v. Wolf
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Compensation for losses sustained by a defendant which are the actual, natural and proximate result of the wrong committed by the restraining order while it is alive and operating is the proper measure of damages in a case of this character. Any actual damage, suffered by reason of the wrongful suing out of the injunction is a proper subject of inquiry, but claimed damages which are so uncertain as to be incapable of ascertainment cannot be recovered. Probably the most general rule, where the defendants have been deprived of the control, use or enjoyment of real or personal property is that there may be a recovery of the value of the use or the reasonable rental value of the property during the time its enjoyment was prevented by injunction.””
1 later decision 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.