Supervisors v. Durant’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 415 · 1869
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1999 · most notably Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York (1978), Owen v. City of Independence (1980)
6 federal appellate · 5 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 Leffingwell v. Warren
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That such an injunction (State) was wholly inoperative to prevent the circuit court of the United States from enforcing its judgment by mandamus to the defendants to compel them to levy the tax which the law authorized and required, is no longer to be doubted. Its invalidity to work such an effect has been placed beyond question by the rulings of this court in the cases already cited. In Riggs v. Johnson County (6 Wall. [73 U. S.] 166 [ 18 L. Ed. 768 ]) where it appeared that an injunction had been obtained, in one of the State courts, upon the county commissioners, enjoining them against levying any tax to pay certain municipal bonds and coupons, a mandamus was nevertheless sustained to compel the levy of a tax, at the suit of one who had obtained judgment in the circuit court for some of the coupons. That case is full authority for the doctrine that an injunction of a State court cannot control, or in any manner affect the action, the process, or the proceeding of a circuit court, not because 'the latter has any paramount jurisdiction over State courts, but because the tribunals are independent of each other. It is true that in Biggs v. Johnson County it appeared the relator in the information, or suggestion for the mandamus, was not a party to the injunction suit, while the relator here was a party defendant. That, however, can make no difference. The present relator, though made a party with the other defendants, was not enjoined. The decree upon the bill for an injuncti”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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