Emil J. Nelson and Richard M. Roberts v. Harold G. Steiner and Ollie Mae Steiner’s Empirical Analysis
279 F.2d 944 · 1960
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Squillacote v. Local 248, Meat & Allied Food Workers (1976), State Ex Rel. Taylor v. Johnson (1998)
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company · Steiner v. Nelson
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he executive branch of government has no right to treat with impunity the valid orders of the judicial branch”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]mpressive authority for the proposition that an order issued by a court with jurisdiction over the subject matter and person must be obeyed by the parties until it is reversed by orderly and proper proceedings.”
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.