Schmoldt v. Oakley’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2017
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Marlin Fire Arms Co. v. . Shields · Dailey v. Superior Court · Marx & Haas Jeans Clothing Co. v. Watson · Carter v. Knapp Motor Co. · American Malting Co. v. Keitel
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the operation of the rule that equity will not restrain a mere libel or slander is not affected by the fact that the false statement may injure plaintiff in his business, profession, or trade, or as to his credit or property, in the absence of acts of conspiracy, intimidation or coercion, or where no breach of trust or of contract appears, because the party wronged has an adequate remedy at law by action for damages or criminal prosecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The ... general principle is that equity does not exercise jurisdiction to enjoin the commission of crimes. ...”
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.