Ex parte Dickens’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1995 · most notably National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson (1958), Greek v. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. (1922)
1 federal appellate · 132 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 Bessette v. W. B. Conkey Co. · Ex Parte Chetwood · Brady v. Brady · Ex parte Hardy · Independent Publishing Co. v. American Press Ass'n
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Following the rules above stated, the chancellor has found the facts that said Dickens has not, in good faith, obeyed the orders of the court, but, on the contrary, has filed a false and fraudulent account; and we must take his finding as being correct. Those being the facts, said Dickens was properly adjudged to be in contempt * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“consists in failing to do something ordered to be done by a court in a civil action, for the benefit of the opposing party therein.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]o compel obedience to its judgments, orders and process.”
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.