Whitaker v. Dillard’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2012
1 district · 22 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the writ of injunction is used to prevent injuries, and not to afford remedy for injury inflicted, this appeal might be disposed of on the ground that the acts which it was the purpose of this suit to prevent had been accomplished when this cause was tried, in the absence of clear averment of further threatened injury.””
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.