Corliss v. E. W. Walker Co.’s Empirical Analysis
57 F. 434 · 1893
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2013
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Sawyer · Boston Diatite Co. v. Florence Manufacturing Co. · Raymond v. Parish of Terrebonne
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is another objection which meets us at the threshold of this case. The subject-matter of the jurisdiction of a court of equity is civil property, and injury to property, whether actual or prospective, is the foundation on which its jurisdiction rests. * * * It follows from this principle that a court of equity has no power to restrain a libelous publication.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Angelus v. Sullivan
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.