Widger v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
244 F.2d 103 · 1957
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably Brown v. United States (1959), United States v. Marshall (1971)
17 federal appellate · 8 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 5
Relies on Hoffman v. United States · Emspak v. United States · Cammer v. United States · Hallinan v. United States · United States v. Rosen
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Summary Disposition. A criminal contempt may be punished summarily if the judge certifies that the judge saw or heard the conduct constituting the contempt and that it was committed in the actual presence of the court. The order of contempt shall recite the facts and shall be signed by the judge and entered of record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rule providing for punishment of con-tempts summarily must be given a narrow construction providing, as it does, for punishment without affording the accused the normal safeguards surrounding criminal prosecutions;_ It is, therefore, essential that courts proceeding summarily must be meticulously careful to observe procedural safeguards.”
1 later decision 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.