Griffith v. Mauritz’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 1980
3 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 Transport Co. of Texas v. Robertson Transports · Texas Foundaries, Inc. v. International Molders & Foundry Workers Union · Southwestern Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Railroad Commission · Stillman v. Hirsch · Railroad Commission v. Shell Oil Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But obviously the injunction must be in broad enough terms to prevent repetition of the evil sought to be stopped, whether the repetition be in form identical to that employed prior to the injunction or (what is far more likely) in somewhat different form calculated to circumvent the injunction as written.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blanks v. Dungan
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.