Kopp v. Franks’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Holtmeier v. Dayani (1993), Birdsong v. Bydalek (1997)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Murphy v. Carron · Edgar v. Fitzpatrick · Chapman v. Schearf · Craig v. Jo B. Gardner, Inc. · Forsythe v. Starnes
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a settled maxim that equity, once having acquired jurisdiction of a cause, will not relinquish it without doing full and effective justice between the parties, even though, to right the wrong corn-plained of, equity must resort to a remedy within the traditional province of law, such as a judgment for money for restitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Magruder v. Pauley“Specific performance of a contract is never decreed when its enforcement would be inequitable or unconscionable, or produce injustice or hardship or where the specific performance of the contract would operate oppressively as to either party, even though there is no sufficient ground for recision or cancellation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The equitable remedy of specific performance is not a matter of right but is a remedy applied by courts of equity, depending upon the facts in the particular case; and the trial court has judicial discretion within the established doctrines and principles of equity to award or withhold the remedy.”
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.