Savin’s Empirical Analysis
131 U.S. 267 · 1889
Citation profile
201 federal appellate · 38 district · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 580 later decisions (66 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites (1955), United States v. Dixon (1993)
201 federal appellate · 38 district · 151 state decisions — followed in 35 states
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 Terry · Ex parte Robinson · Randall v. Brigham · Ex Parte Rowe
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 580 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the contempt is committed directly under the eye or within the view of the court, it may proceed “upon its own knowledge of the facts, and punish the offender, without further proof, and without issue or trial in any form.””
24 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is not necessary that proceedings against attorneys for malpractice, or any unprofessional conduct, should be founded upon formal allegations against them. Such proceedings are often instituted upon information developed in the progress of a cause; or from what the court learns of the conduct of the attorney from its own observation. Sometimes they are moved by third parties upon affidavit, and sometimes they are taken by the court upon its own motion. All that is requisite to their validity is that, when not taken for matters occurring in open court, in the presence of the judges, notice should be given to the attorney of the charges made, and opportunity afforded him for explanation and defense. The manner in which the proceeding shall be conducted, so that it be without oppression or unfairness, is a matter of judicial regulation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It could, in its discretion, adopt such mode of determining that question as it deemed proper, provided due regard was liad to the essential rules that obtain in the trial of matters of contempt.””
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.