Patten v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 1998 · most notably Ponce De Leon Condominiums v. DiGirolamo (1977), 551 So. 2d 107 - Hinds Cty. Bd. of Sup'rs v. Common Cause (1989)
1 federal appellate · 39 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 Murphey v. Harker · Warner v. Martin · Carson v. Ennis · Allen v. Baker · Nance v. Daniel
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.
“entertained any doubt as to what he might or might not do under the order, he should have asked for a modification or a construction of its terms. . . In cases of contempt the trial judge is vested with a discretion in determining whether his orders have been violated and how such infringements should be treated; and it has been said that this court will not disturb his judgment, unless it appears that he has abused his discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Reid v. McRae · Burke v. Burke
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.