Mahers v. Hedgepeth’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.3d 1273 · 1994
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2013
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on International Union, United Mine Workers v. Bagwell · United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co. · United States v. Armour & Co. · Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25 · Hicks Ex Rel. Feiock v. Feiock
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The contempt power is a most potent weapon, and therefore it must be carefully and precisely employed.”
4 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.