United States Greathouse v. Dern’s Empirical Analysis
289 U.S. 352 · 1933
Citation profile
117 federal appellate · 27 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 299 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. (1941), Burford v. Sun Oil Co. (1943)
117 federal appellate · 27 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States ex rel. Greathouse v. Hurley (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Shively v. Bowlby · United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Co. · United States v. River Rouge Improvement Co. · Barney v. Keokuk · United States Arant v. Lane
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 299 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a federal equity court does have jurisdiction of a particular proceeding, it may, in its sound discretion, whether its jurisdiction is invoked on the ground of diversity of citizenship or otherwise, 'refuse to enforce or protect legal rights, the exercise of which may be prejudicial to the public interest'; for it 'is in the public interest that the federal courts of equity should exercise their discretionary power with proper regard for the rightful independence of state governments in carrying out their domestic policy.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is apparent that petitioners are entitled to the relief prayed only if several doubtful questions are resolved in their favor.” (Page 357, 53 S.Ct. 616 ) (Emphasis supplied).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is controlled by equitable principles * * * and it may be refused for reasons comparable to those which would lead a court of equity, in the exercise of a sound discretion, to withhold its protection of an undoubted legal right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zabel v. Tabb
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.