Vencor, Inc. v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
33 F.3d 840 · 1994
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Boucher v. School Board of School District of Greenfield (1998), Kohler v. Leslie Hindman, Inc. (1996)
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Powell v. McCormack · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Weinstein v. Bradford
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [district] court, sitting as would a chancellor in equity, ... “weighs” all four factors in deciding whether to grant the injunction, seeking at all times to “minimize the costs of being mistaken.” We call this process the “sliding scale” approach: the more likely it is the plaintiff will succeed on the merits, the less the balance of irreparable harms need weigh towards its side; the less likely it is the plaintiff will succeed, the more the balance need weigh towards its side. This weighing process, as noted, also takes into consideration the consequences to the public interest of granting or denying preliminary relief. While we have at times framed the sliding scale approach in mathematical terms, it is more properly characterized as subjective and intuitive, one which permits district courts to “weigh the competing considerations and mold appropriate relief.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(3) the irreparable harm the non-moving party will suffer if preliminary relief is granted, balancing that harm against the irreparable harm to the moving party if relief is denied; and (4) the public interest, meaning the consequences of granting or denying the injunction to non-parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“United States Parole Comm'n v. Geraghty, 445 U.S. 388 , 396, 100 S.Ct. 1202, 1208, 63 L.Ed.2d 479 (1980); Vencor, Inc. v. Webb, 33 F.3d 840 (7th Cir.1994). The Supreme Court has recognized an exception to the general rule for situations that are”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.