Doyle v. London Guarantee & Accident Co.’s Empirical Analysis
204 U.S. 599 · 1907
Citation profile
146 federal appellate · 12 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 275 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2015 · most notably United States v. United Mine Workers of America (1947), Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. (1911)
146 federal appellate · 12 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Alexander v. United States · Bessette v. W. B. Conkey Co. · Ex Parte Chetwood · McLish v. Roff · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad v. Southern Express 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 275 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]e deem it settled that an order punishing for contempt, made in the progress of the ease, when not in the nature of an order in a criminal proceeding, is regarded as interlocutory and to be reviewed only upon appeal from a final decree in the case.” 204 U.S. at 603 , 27 S.Ct. at 314 (emphasis supplied).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“he carries the keys of the prison in his own pocket,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“vindication of the authority and dignity of the court . . . [but rather] to enforce the rights of private parties, to compel obedience to orders and decrees made to enforce their rights and to give them a remedy to which the court deems them entitled.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.