Ladd v. Oxnard’s Empirical Analysis
75 F. 703 · 1896
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1990
6 federal appellate · 2 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 Callaghan v. Myers · Belknap v. Schild · Frederick and Samuel Barnard and Henry Hawley v. John Gibson · Babbitt v. Finn · Parker v. Winnipiseogee Lake Cotton & Woollen 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the law vests in no other individual holding an official position, whether executive, legislative, or judicial, a power more extensive and more capable of evil, as well as of good, without defined rules either as to the law or the facts, than that which a single judge is so often asked to exercise in the manner asked in the case at bar. In view of this fact, and further in view of the varying and inconsistent expressions in relation to the proper occasions for exercising this power, the only true safety is in saying that a temporary injunction ought never to be granted in a case of new impression, like this at bar, if it be possible to effectuate justice in any other way. * * * The case fails to impress the court with the necessity of granting the complainants, for their protection, an unconditional interlocutory order. The respondent is not charged with attempting in any way to pass off his publication for that of the complainants. Indeed, not only the title page and the short name given the respondent’s book, but also its size and style of binding, prevent any probability of one being mistaken for the other. There is therefore no threatened injury to come from a counterfeiting of that character, so that we can apply the fact, which is matter of common knowledge, that publications of this peculiar character rely for their acceptance on the reputation of the compilers and publishers, and the circulation of them must ordinarily be the same, whether protected by copyright ”
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.