French v. Pobst’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2007
14 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Schmidt · Hotaling v. Superior Court · Ward v. Charlton · Rinehart & Dennis Co. v. McArthur · Rogers v. Rogers
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“merely declare[d] the rights of the parties without an express command or prohibition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petrosinelli v. PETA“contempt lies for disobedience of what is decreed, not for what may be decreed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petrosinelli v. PETA“there must be an express command or prohibition”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petrosinelli v. PETA
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.