Crimmins v. Simonds’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2012
12 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 Peters v. Davis · 14 Utah 2d 36 - Metropolitan Investment Company v. Sine · Papanikolas Bros. Enterprises v. Sugarhouse Shopping Center Associates · Rogers v. Zwolak · People v. . Foster
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under that test, an equity court may exercise its discretion not to grant injunc-tive relief when the plaintiff is not irrepa rably harmed by the violation, the violation was innocent, defendants’ cost of removal would be disproportionate and oppressive compared to the benefits plaintiffs would derive from it, and plaintiffs can be compensated by damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Englert v. Zane
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.