Nye v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
313 U.S. 33 · 1941
Citation profile
422 federal appellate · 30 district · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 840 later decisions (93 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. United Mine Workers of America (1947), Branzburg v. Hayes (1972)
422 federal appellate · 30 district · 135 state decisions — followed in 22 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
reviewedNye v. United States (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996)
Relies on Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader · Cooke v. United States · Terry
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 840 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A court of the United States shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment, at its discretion, such contempt of its authority, and none other, as— “(1) Misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice; . . . .” 18 U.S.C. § 401 . (Emphasis added)”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]isbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Michael · State v. Conley“'[N]ear' ... suggests physical proximity not relevancy”
7 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.