City Ry. Co. v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis
283 F. 313 · 1922
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1960
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Davis v. Wakelee · Norwood v. Baker · Greene v. Louisville & Interurban Railroad · Cummings v. National Bank · Bacon v. Rutland Railroad
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The adequate remedy at law, which will deprive a court of equity of jurisdiction, must be a remedy as certain, complete, prompt, and efficient to attain the ends of justice as the remedy in equity. * * * [Citing cases.] If the remedy at law be even doubtful, a court of equity will take cognizance of the suit. Davis v. Wakelee, 156 U. S. 680, 688 , 15 Sup. Ct. 555, 39 L. Ed. 578 ; Union Pac. R. R. Co. v. Weld, 247 U. S. 282 , 38 Sup. Ct. 510, 62 L. Ed. 1110 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pierce v. Green
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.