Smith v. Clothier’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1999
14 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 Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company · Bessette v. W. B. Conkey Co. · Doyle v. London Guarantee & Accident Co. · Phillips v. Welch · Howard v. Durand
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That upon the return of an officer on process or an affidavit duly filed' showing. any person guilty of indirect contempt, a writ of attachment or other lawful process may issue, and such person be arrested and brought before the court or judge in chambers; and thereupon■ a written accusation setting forth succinctly and clearly the facts alleged to constitute such contempt shall be filed, and the accused required to answer the same, by an order which shall fix the time therefor and also the time and place for hearing the matter; and the court or the judge in chambers shall, on proper showing, extend the time so as to give the accused a reasonable opportunity to purge himself of such contempt. . . .” (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In this case a judgment upon the contempt proceedings is ‘an order affecting a substantial right, made in a special proceeding or in a summary application in an action after judgment’ within the meaning of the term as used in section 566, of the civil code, and is, therefore, ‘a final order’ from which the aggrieved party may take an appeal within the meaning of that term as used in section 565 of the civil code.” (p. 55.) (The two sections referred to now appear as G. S. 1949, 60-3303 and 60-3302, respectively.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““An injunction granted by a judge may be enforced as the act of the court. Disobedience of any injunction may be punished as a contempt, by the court or any judge who might have granted it in vacation. An attachment may be issued by the court or judge, upon being satisfied, by affidavit, of the breach of the injunction, against the party guilty of the same, . . .” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frey v. Willey
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.