State ex rel. Thomas v. Snelling’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1984
10 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 Caroline Dobbins v. City of Los Angeles · Fitts v. McGhee · Harkrader v. Wadley · Ayers Scott McCabe · City of Atlanta v. Gate City Gas Light Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A very great majority of the oases found in the books, where application has been made to a court of equity for injunctions to restrain the prosecution of criminal actions, announce the doctrine that equity courts will not so interfere. . . . The general doctrine is a very just, proper and correct one, and it is almost inconceivable that a court endowed with the high prerogatives of equitable jurisdiction would by their use interfere in the ordinary proceedings of criminal courts.” (p. 504.)”
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.