Demarest v. Hardham’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1965 · most notably Hale v. Allinson (1903), Lux v. Haggin (1886)
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hazeltine v. Case
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principle to be deduced from the authorities I understand to be this: That an injunction to restrain a lawful business, on the ground that it is so conducted as to render it a nuisance, should never be granted, except the complainant shows an invasion of a clear legal right, resulting in permanent and serious injury, which cannot be adequately redressed by action at law, and that the allowance of the writ will not inflict upon the defendant a more serious injury than the complainant will sustain if the writ is denied and he be left to his ordinary legal remedy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the legal right is not clear, or the injury is doubtful, eventual or contingent, equity will give no aid.”
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.