Humphreys v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2005
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Sack v. Feinman · 302 Pa. Super. 166 - Agra Enterprises, Inc. v. Brunozzi · Logan v. CHERRIE
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.
“the language in Rule 311(a)(4) was meant to apply only to preliminary injunctions.” In Hum-phreys, the Commonwealth Court confronted a situation where Humphreys filed an appeal from a decree nisi that granted permanent injunctive relief in favor of Cain. Id. at 354 . The Court quashed the appeal as premature and explained that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Rule 311. Interlocutory Appeals as of Right (a) General rule. Except as otherwise prescribed by general rule, an appeal may be taken as of right from: (4) Injunctions. An order granting continuing, modifying, refusing or dissolving injunctions, or refusing to dissolve or modify injunctions.”
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.