Narragansett Indian Tribe v. Guilbert’s Empirical Analysis
934 F.2d 4 · 1991
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 100 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Boit v. Gar-Tec Products, Inc. (1992), Ross-Simons of Warwick, Inc. v. Baccarat, Inc. (1996)
68 federal appellate · 100 district · 1 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 Carson v. American Brands, Inc. · Montana v. United States · Vermont v. Cox · Jones v. United States · Duro v. Reina
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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The likelihood of success on the merits; 2. The potential for irreparable injury; 3. The balancing of the relevant equities (most importantly, the hardship to the nonmovant if the restrainer issues as contrasted with the hardship to the movant if interim relief is withheld); and 4. The effect on the public interest of a grant or denial of the restrainer.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'conclusions as to the merits of the issues presented on preliminary injunction are to be understood as statements of probable outcomes,' rather than as comprising the law of the case.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a party losing the battle on likelihood of success may nonetheless win the war at a succeeding trial on the merits.”
3 later decisions 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.