Burhoe v. Byrne’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district ·

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““the allegations * * * taken as true * * * sounding the alarm, as they do, against the still ‘iffy’ possibility of an indictment of plaintiff by a Massachusetts grand jury, which possibility is alleged herein only as a matter of information and belief, do not present, at least at this time, a substantial federal question.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Burhoe v. Byrne

2. ““[A] showing of ‘special circumstances’ beyond the injury incidental to every proceeding brought lawfully and in good faith is requisite to a finding of irreparable injury sufficient to justify the extraordinary remedy of an injunction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Burhoe v. Byrne