Burdett v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Van Dyke v. Superior Court (1922), Coons v. State (1922)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Terry · State ex inf. Crow v. Shepherd · Cartwright's Case · State v. Morrill · State v. Frew & Hart
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he substantial difference between a direct and a constructive contempt is one of procedure. Where the contempt is committed in the presence of the court, it is competent for it to proceed upon its own knowledge of the facts, ‘and to punish the offender without further proof, and without issue or trial in any form.’ (Citations omitted.) “In dealing with indirect contempts—that is, such as are committed not in the presence of the court—the offender must be brought before the court by a rule or some other sufficient process; but the power of the court to punish is the same in both cases.” 103 Va. at 845-46 , 48 S.E. at 880-81 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the 9 Cyc. of Law and Procedure, p. 6, a constructive contempt is stated to be “an act done not in the presence of the court, but at a distance, which tends to belittle, to degrade, or to obstruct, interrupt, prevent, or embarrass the administration of justice.” Barton, in Vol. 2 (2 Ed.), p. 774, of his Law Practice, is to the same effect. “Contempt of court is a disobedience to the court, or an opposing or despising the authority, justice or dignity thereof.””
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.