State Ex Rel. McGregor v. Peacock’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 1988
18 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 Baumgartner v. Joughin · Baumgartner v. Joughin · State Ex Rel. Brooks v. Freeland · Wilson v. Joughin
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(3, 4) * * * even in cases of proceedings to invoke the disqualification of a judge, the power to punish for contempts exists where there is such uncalled for acts or wrongful conduct as amounts to an actual and direct obstruction to, or interference with, the administration of justice, and it is only with erroneous or abusive exercises of such power to punish for contempt that this court can be concerned when properly called on to grant relief."”
2 later decisions 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.