Hendryx v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
19 F. 810 · 1884
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1947
10 federal appellate · 2 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 In re Chiles · Banking Ass'n v. Insurance Ass'n · Cartwright's Case · Galland v. Galland · Stimpson v. Putnam
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“- “The process of contempt has two distinct functions — one, criminal to punish disobedience, the other, civil and remedial, to enforce a decree of the court and indemnify private persons. In patent causes it has been usual to •combine the two and to order punishment if it is thought proper, or indemnity to the plaintiff, if that is all that justice requires, or both.””
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.