In Re M Dianne Smothers’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2020
1 federal appellate · 2 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 · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · In re Oliver · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Federal courts have inherent powers necessary for them to function as an institution.” In re Smothers, 322 F.3d 438, 442 (6th Cir.2003) (citing, inter alia, Chambers v. NASCO, Inc., 501 U.S. 32, 43 , 111 S.Ct. 2123 , 115 L.Ed.2d 27 (1991) (explaining that the courts’ inherent powers are animated”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when confronted with actions that may not fall within the court's contempt power, this inherent power to maintain respect and decorum grants courts the flexibility to equitably tailor punishments that appropriately fit the conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Wieland“[A]bsence alone cannot be contempt.... The court must learn why the attorney was late in order to determine whether the attorney had criminal intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Gates
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.