Commonwealth v. Stratton Finance Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1999
2 district · 16 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 In re Debs · Attorney General v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Kozlowsky · Carleton v. Rugg · Attorney General v. Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Corp.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The objections to ‘criminal equity’ are that it deprives the defendant of his jury trial; that it substitutes for the definite penalties fixed by the Legislature whatever punishment for contempt a particular judge may see fit to exact; that it is often no more than an attempt to overcome by circumvention the supposed shortcomings of jurors; and that it may result, or induce the public to believe that it results, in the arbitrary exercise of power and in ‘government by injunction.’ These objections are substantial. They should cause a court to hesitate to extend the use of the injunction into the criminal field without express legislative sanction.” 310 Mass. 469, 474 , 38 N.E.2d 640, 643 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.