Rev. Dianne Fennell’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably 491 F. Supp. 1074 - Monahan v. State of Neb. (1980), 477 F. Supp. 542 - Women's Community Health Center, Inc. v. Cohen (1979)
16 district ·
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 Sonesta International Hotels Corp. v. Wellington Associates · William Inglis & Sons Baking Co. v. ITT Continental Baking Co. · Gresham v. Chambers
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A preliminary injunction should issue upon a clear showing of either (1) probable success on the merits and possible irreparable injury, or (2) sufficiently serious questions going to the merits to make them a fair ground for litigation and a balance of the hardships tipping decidedly toward the party requesting the preliminary relief.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantial probability of success at trial.”
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.