Handler v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1995
9 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 Wyatt v. the People · Joslyn v. People · Shore v. People
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The function of the court in punishing for contempt is only to be invoked in cases where, in the opinion of the court, there has been manifest perjury committed. The court can appreciate the mental condition of the defendant and the motives which prompted them and can overlook his insolence to the Court while on the witness stand, but the defendant in this case in his answers to questions properly presented convinces the Court that he has no appreciation of the significance or sacredness of an oath, and that the manifest perjury committed before the Court should be called an obstruction of justice by the Court , therefore, I find the defendant guilty of contempt and sentence him to ninety days in jail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Handler v. Gordon“without prejudice to the power of the court to proceed further as advised,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Handler v. Gordon“recite the facts constituting the contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Handler v. Gordon
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.