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preliminary injunction

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 325 U.S. 212 - De Beers Consol Mines v. United States · 1945Most cited · 915 citing opinions

A preliminary injunction is always appropriate to grant intermediate relief of the same character as that which may be granted finally.

How often courts cite the case defining “preliminary injunction”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “preliminary injunction” — 901 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.