Tuttle v. Church’s Empirical Analysis
53 F. 422 · 1892
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1985
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Baltimore v. Fifth Baptist Church · Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company v. Ward · Campbell v. . Seaman · Irwin v. Dixion · William v. Beck
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A motion for an injunction is addressed to the sound discretion of the court, guided by certain established rules. This means that the court is to consider all the circumstances of each case before it will exercise this extra- . ordinary remedy. Among the considerations which should influence a chancellor is the relative effect upon the parties of granting or refusing the injunction. Unless the public good calls for the injunction to issue, it should not be granted, where a large number of people are in favor of the acts to be restrained, and no serious damage to individuals is made to appear. Where the right at law is doubtful, the case resolves itself into a question of comparative injury — whether the defendants will be more injured by the injunction being granted, or the plaintiffs by its being withheld. In the present case the effect of an injunction, according to the evidence, will be . to close the defendants’ works, destroy their business, and thereby cause the loss of a large amount of invested capital, while the injury to the plaintiffs if the injunction is refused, is comparatively slight.” — citing a number of cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If one voluntarily moves into a town or neighborhood where smoke or noxious gases abound, it may be presumed that he does so for sufficient reasons, and he should not be permitted to come into a court of equity and restrain the prosecution of industries already established, and upon which the business interests and welfare of the community may depend.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weida v. Ferry
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.