In re Steiner’s Empirical Analysis
195 F. 299 · 1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1941
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Savin · Ex parte Bradley · Kirk v. United States · Underwood Typewriter Co. v. Elliott-Fisher Co. · Chicago Directory Co. v. United States Directory Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The acts of the plaintiffs in error, whicli are established by the proofs herein, occurred several blocks distant from the place where the court was held, and not upon property belonging to the United States, or occupied or used by the court. The question is: ‘Were they committed so near to the presence of the court as to tend to obstruct the administration of justice therein?’ Section 725 of the Itevised Statutes was adopted by the act of Marcli 2, 1831 (U. S. Comp. St. 1001, p. 583), immediately following tlie conclusion of proceedings against District Judge Peck, who was impeached for imprisoning an attorney for criticism of.one of his decisions after the ease had ended in his court. It was the purpose of the act to limit the power of federal courts to punish as for contempt criticisms of judicial decisions or judicial officers, and it seems clear that the limitation expressed in the words, ‘so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice,’ was meant to apply more particularly to that class of contempts and to acts of turbulence and disorder committed, not in the presence of the court, nor so near thereto ag to present an obstacle to the orderly administration of justice, and not to misbehavior which, at whatever place committed, would tend as completely to obstruct the administration of justice as if committed in the immediate presence or in the vicinage of the court. It is obvious that any willful attempt improperly to influence jurors in the impartial disc”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The New York authorities cited on the brief are not persuasive; the language of the state statute being different from that of section 725, Rev. St. XT. S. I now' section 268, Judicial Code], There seems uo good reason for confining contempts to boisterous disturbances in the courtroom.””
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.