Carson v. Ennis’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2004 · most notably Clark v. United States (1933), Chula v. Superior Court (1962)
28 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 · United States v. Shipp · O'Brien v. People ex rel. Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co. · Davis v. Davis · Plunkett v. Hamilton
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, it must be alleged in the contempt proceedings that the alleged contemnor had actual notice of the order for disobedience of which he is sought to be punished, and the acts or conduct relied on as establishing the contempt must be clearly and distinctly alleged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In contempt proceedings the only concern of the court is that the law should be obeyed and enforced. It follows that no traverse of the contemnor's answer is necessary in the proceeding under review.”
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.