In re Gitkin’s Empirical Analysis
164 F. 71 · 1908
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1972
4 federal appellate · 7 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 Ex parte Robinson · Batchelder v. Moore · United States v. Anonymous · In re Fellerman · Osborne v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The referee shall certify thé facts to the judge if any person shall do any of the things forbidden in this section. The judge shall thereupon in summary manner hear the evidence as to the acts complained of and if it is such as to warrant him in so doing punish the person in the same manner and to the same extent as for a contempt committed before the court of bankruptcy.” Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 556 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3437).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he power of the courts to punish for contempt has always been looked on in this country with much jealousy, and a very strong disposition shown in all jurisdictions to restrain it. It has been declared to be arbitrary in its nature * * *, and to be an exception to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and not to be extended in the least degree beyond the limits imposed by statute.”
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.