Rivers v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
112 F.2d 439 · 1940
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1982
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · United States of America v. American Tobacco Co. · Leman v. Krentler-Arnold Hinge Last Co. · Fox v. Capital Co. · Brownlow v. Schwartz
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court, as part of its order, may fine or otherwise charge the defendant with the expenses and damages caused to plaintiff by the disobedience of the order which constitutes the contempt.”
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.