Freeman v. Scherer’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1979
4 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 Whitehair v. Brown · Stewart v. Board of Commissioners · Marts v. Freeman · Hurd v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Downs v. Board of County Commissioners
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One who asks for an injunction is governed by the usual equitable rules, and one of them is that ‘He who seeks equity must do equity.’ If he has acted wrongfully and illegally in- the matter he is hardly entitled to ask for equitable relief by injunction. He did act illegally and wrongfully when he closed the ditch and obstructed the passage of water through it. In a sense he invited and permitted the injury which he anticipates may result to him from the ditch and dike. ‘A party can not invite and encourage a wrong, and then ask a court of equity to protect him by an injunction from the consequences of that wrong.’ (Stewart v. Comm’rs of Wyandotte Co., 45 Kan. 708, syl. ¶ 2, 26 Pac. 683 ; Downs v. Comm’rs of Wyandotte Co., 48 Kan. 640 , 29 Pac. 1077 , 22 Cyc. 776.)” (p. 189.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Injunction is not used to prevent a prospective injury unless it appears that there is a reasonable probability of injury and that the law will not afford an adequate remedy.” (p. 188.)”
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.