Small v. Kiley’s Empirical Analysis
567 F.2d 163 · 1977
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably American Hospital Supply Corp. v. Hospital Products Ltd. (1986), Touche Ross Co v. Securities and Exchange Commission M R M (1979)
10 federal appellate · 2 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 Califano v. Sanders · Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Renegotiation Board v. Bannercraft Clothing Co. · Schmidt v. Lessard
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]very order granting an injunction ... shall set forth the reasons for its issuance,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“), and set forth the district court's reasons for granting the injunction. Given the requirement of Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(d) that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is true that ordinarily the decree of a District Court granting or denying a preliminary injunction will not be disturbed on appeal. But that rule of practice has no application where, as here, there (may have been) an insuperable obstacle to the maintenance of the suit in point of jurisdiction and where it clearly appears that the decree was the result of an improvident exercise of judicial discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Small v. Kiley
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.