Fox v. First Bank’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Ullmann v. State (1994), Millbrook Owners Ass'n v. Hamilton Standard (2001)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 Friedlander v. Friedlander · In Re Mongillo · Thode v. Thode
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts should be reluctant to employ the sanction of dismissal except as a last resort.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he practice of imprisonment for ordinary debts was abandoned long ago and it defies credulity to assume that the court ... in entering the order that is the basis for the finding of contempt intended that the plaintiff's noncompliance might result in her incarceration or other punishment for contempt. It would be most unusual for a court to make its contempt power available to a creditor in the collection of an ordinary debt. ... The plaintiff's default on the debt she owed the defendant did not ... subject her to punishment for contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“demonstrate[d] sufficient disregard for the court's order and deliberate disregard of the authority of the court to warrant the trial court's imposition of a sanction for noncompliance.”
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.