H & R Block, Inc., Cross v. George R. McCaslin D/B/A the Tax Man, Cross’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 1098 · 1976
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Coyne-Delany Co. v. Capital Development Board (1983), Global NAPs, Inc. v. Verizon New England, Inc. (2007)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Russell v. Farley · Page Communications Engineers, Inc. v. Robert T. Froehlke, Secretary of the Army Page Communications Engineers, Inc. v. Robert T. Froehlke, Secretary of the Army, National Surety Corporation, on Counterclaim, Federal Electric Corporation, Defendant-Intervenor · Shirk v. Loftis Bros. · Dixie Bearings, Inc. v. Walker
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of damages pursuant to an injunction bond rests in the sound discretion of the court's equity jurisdiction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no liability for damages resulting from a suit for an injunction unless the injunction was obtained maliciously and without probable cause ...”
1 later decision 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.