Duell v. Duell’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.2d 683 · 1949
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably Southern Railway Company v. Carl Talmadge Lanham (1969), Lance v. United States Department of Justice (1980)
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 8 · 29 U.S.C. § 111 (Norris-LaGuardia Act)
Relies on Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Cooke v. United States · Terry · Hovey v. Elliott · Binderup v. Pathe Exchange, Inc.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon consideration of the Motion and Affidavit for Contempt filed herein, the affidavits of the defendant and David G. Bress, and the testimony and evidence produced in open Court, and after argument of counsel, and the Court having found as a fact that on November 12, 1963 the defendant Marilyn Atwood Coles willfully violated the order of this Court entered October 30, 1963, in that on that day the defendant took the minor child of the parties from the plaintiff’s sister Mrs. Field, in whose care and custody the minor then was pursuant to the aforesaid order of October 30, 1963, it is by the Court this 13th day of November, 1963 “ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the defendant Marilyn Atwood Coles be and she is hereby committed to the custody of the United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, to be confined in the Washington Asylum and Jail for a period of ' forty-eight (48) hours, beginning at 4:00 p. m., November 13, 1963.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coles v. Coles“saw or heard the conduct constituting the contempt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was committed in the actual presence of the court.”
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.