Poss v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1974
6 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 Plunkett v. Hamilton · Tindall v. Nisbet · Russell v. Mohr-Weil Lumber Co. · Hayden v. Phinizy · Gaston v. Shunk Plow 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon the hearing of an attachment proceeding instituted for the purpose of punishing one who is alleged to have violated a restraining order granted by a court having competent jurisdiction of the person and subject-matter, but in the grant of which it proceeded erroneously, the validity of the court's action in originally granting such restraining order cannot be collaterally called in question. Such an order is binding upon the party restrained, until reversed, set aside, or modified by the court granting it, and a disobedience of the direction expressed in such order affords ground for an attachment as for a contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A party must be held bound by a ruling which he invoked . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. McGee
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.