In re Van Alstine’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1973
10 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 Carlton v. Carlton · Goodwillie v. Millimann · Clements v. Tillman · In re Bingham · In re Leach
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No court or judge shall inquire into the legality of any judgment or process whereby the party is in custody, or discharge him when the term of commitment has not expired, in either of the cases following: ‘ ‘ 1. Upon any process issued on any final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. “2. For any contempt of any court, officer or body having authority in the premises to commit; but an order of commitment as for a contempt upon proceedings to enforce the remedy of a party, is not included in any of the foregoing specifications:””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Parent
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.