Engelman v. Cahn’s Empirical Analysis
425 F.2d 954 · 1969
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2001
15 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 47 U.S.C. § 605
Relies on Katz v. United States · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Zwickler v. Koota · Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado · Desist v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“surely had no intention to abrogate in civil rights cases the historic rule . . . that suits in equity shall not be sustained in courts of the United States “in any case where a plain, adequate and complete remedy may be had at law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wallace v. Kern“flanking movement against the system of State courts by resort to the federal forum”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McLucas v. Palmer
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.