Watkins v. Rives’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.2d 33 · 1941
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably White v. Schwartz (1962), Martin-Trigona v. Shiff (1983)
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 15 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 Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · Leman v. Krentler-Arnold Hinge Last Co. · Hovey v. McDonald · In re Gregory · Warring v. Colpoys
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effect of the commitment for contempt is not, as appellant contends, imprisonment for debt, but is instead, imprisonment for failure to comply with the court's order to turn over assets, or the proceeds thereof, in specie. * * * The power of equity to order a trustee to turn over specific assets and to commit for contempt for failure to do so is well established. (Citing cases) The probate court is empowered to enforce its decrees with those powers which may be exercised by the court of equity. It properly exercised that power over appellant for his refusal to comply with the terms of its order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Whenever under these rules service is required or permitted to be made upon a party represented by an attorney the service shall be made upon the attorney unless service upon the party himself is ordered by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]his court has, customarily, looked to [post-1801] decisions of the Court of Appeals of Maryland for assistance ... in interpreting the law which was inherited from that State....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.