Kramer v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
947 F.2d 666 · 1991
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably DeVaney v. Thriftway Marketing Corp. (1997), Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Dammann & Co. (2010)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Freedman v. Maryland · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson · Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad · Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan
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.
“In the end, we can do no more than take the Willing court’s words at face value. From our reading, we must conclude, on balance, that the court was sufficiently transfixed by brooding emanations from Pennsylvania’s history and the various constitutional provisions pertaining to free speech, and was sufficiently concerned about the encroachment of equity upon legal remedies, and in particular about the selective invocation of equitable remedies against indigent defendants, that it would have denied an injunction even on the facts of this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“quite clearly reflects its continuing adherence to the adequate [legal] remedy rationale for denying injunctive relief” and stating the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would be unlikely to permit injunctions even following”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“almost talismanic significance that the case law attaches to the decisions of juries”
1 later decision 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.