Negron v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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.

1. “[I]t is elementary that a court of equity will not enjoin one from doing what he is not attempting and does not intend to do,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. LaReau v. MacDougall · Menendez v. Saks

2. ““There is thus a responsibility, resting upon all counsel but especially upon those for civil rights organizations, not to swell the tidal wave of actions under the civil rights statute by bringing suits for declaratory or injunctive relief when no need for this exists. All too often we see a motion for a temporary injunction allegedly requiring the district judge to set all his other tasks aside and determine, in days or even hours, * * * a constitutional issue of great pith and moment that could have been considered, in a much more orderly fashion and with a better development of the facts, by the presentation of a defense in a state court, with ultimate review by the Supreme Court if that should prove to be required.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pandora Books, Inc. v. Gold

3. “the framers of the Act of 1871 could hardly have intended it to become the standard method of constitutional attack upon state action * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tichon v. Harder