Sampson v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
817 federal appellate · 640 district · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,156 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Allen v. Wright (1984), United States v. Testan (1976)
817 federal appellate · 640 district · 108 state decisions — followed in 23 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMurray v. Kunzig (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 53 (Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 77T (§ 20 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 16 U.S.C. § 825M (§ 314 of the Federal Power Act of 1920) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 1301 · 5 U.S.C. § 1302
Relies on Goldberg v. Kelly · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Service v. Dulles
Cited together with Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Elrod v. Burns · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Virginia Petroleum Jobbers Association v. Federal Power Commission, Blue Ridge Gas Company, Intervenor. Petition for Review of Order of the Federal Power Commission, No. 14583. Virginia Petroleum Jobbers Association v. Federal Power Commission, Appeal From United States District Court for the District of Columbia · Arnett v. Kennedy
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 3,156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The key word in this consideration is irreparable. Mere injuries, however substantial, in terms of money, time and energy necessarily expended in the absence of a stay, are not enough. The possibility that adequate compensatory or other corrective relief will be available at a later date, in the ordinary course of litigation, weighs heavily against a claim of irreparable harm.”
121 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“however severely they may affect a particular individual.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The basis of injunctive relief in the federal courts has always been irreparable harm and inadequacy of legal remedies.”
17 later decisions 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.