Hazen v. Reagen’s Empirical Analysis
16 F.3d 921 · 1994
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Voss (1996), Contractors, Laborers, Teamsters & Engineers Health & Welfare Plan v. Killips (2008)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Meachum v. Fano · Olim v. Wakinekona · United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co. · Nowak v. Trezevant · Finney v. Arkansas Board of Correction
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]efore a party can be held in contempt for violating a court order, [it] must have actual knowledge of the order and the order must be 'sufficiently specific to be enforceable.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schaefer Fan Co Inc Ronald Schaefer v. J&d Manufacturing Don Redetzke Northern Wire Products Inc · In Re: Application to Adjudge Brent Medlock in Criminal Contempt C.H. Robinson Company C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., United States of America v. Medco, Inc., Also Known as Brent Medlock Medco Forwarding, Inc., Also Known as Brent Medlock, Brent Medlock, Also Known as Douglas Brent Medlock“the burden of proving a violation of the consent decree by clear and convincing evidence.”
1 later decision 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.