George E. Stringfellow v. Charles E. Haines’s Empirical Analysis
309 F.2d 910 · 1962
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Waffenschmidt v. Mackay (1985), Halderman v. Pennhurst State School & Hospital (1982)
28 federal appellate · 3 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 Oriel v. Russell · Parker v. United States · John B. Stetson Co. v. Stephen L. Stetson Co. · Telling v. Bellows-Claude Neon 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n civil contempt... [p]roof of violation must be clear and convincing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“after the conclusion of the principal action rather than in its course.”
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.