Pass v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Konvalinka v. Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority (2008), Harbison v. Briggs Bros. Paint Mfg. Co. (1962)
44 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 Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · In re Debs · Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company · Tioga Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania New York L E · District of Columbia v. Colts
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power of courts to punish for contempt is of immemorial antiquity, and is inherent in all courts as a necessary power belonging to them in order to enable them to accomplish the purposes for which they were designed; that is, the orderly trial and decision of causes, the enforcement of public order, the prevention of interferences with their proceedings, and the enforcement of the due respect belonging to them as institutions of the country.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A constitutional guaranty of jury trial does not apply to proceedings to punish for contempt of court whether in a court of law, a court of equity, a court having criminal jurisdiction, or other court. Punishment for contempt may be summary whether the contempt is direct or indirect, civil or criminal, ...””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ahern v. Ahern · Robinson v. Gaines
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.