Federal Leasing, Inc. v. Underwriters at Lloyd's’s Empirical Analysis
650 F.2d 495 · 1981
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Rum Creek Coal Sales, Inc. v. Caperton (1991), Arthur Treacher's Franchisee Litigation v. A & B Management Corporation (1982)
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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 Blackwelder Furniture Co. of Statesville, Inc. v. Seilig Manufacturing Co. · Semmes Motors, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co. · State Department of Health & Mental Hygiene v. Baltimore County · Telvest, Inc. v. Bradshaw
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he two more important factors are those of probable irreparable injury to plaintiff without a decree and of likely harm to the defendant with a decree. If that balance is struck in favor of plaintiff, it is enough that grave or serious questions are presented; and plaintiff need not show a likelihood of success.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“flexible interplay” among four factors: "the likelihood of irreparable harm to the plaintiff if the preliminary injunction is denied; the likelihood of harm to the defendant if the requested relief is granted; the likelihood that plaintiff will succeed on the merits; and the public interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to preserve the status quo during the course of a litigation in order to prevent irreparable injury to the moving party and in order to preserve the ability of the court to render complete relief”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.