Scelba v. Scelba’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Sharpe · Molinaro v. New Jersey · Ortega-Rodriguez v. United States · Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield v. Finkelstein Kcg G · United States v. Barnette
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dismiss an appeal by a person who stands in contempt of court in the proceeding in which he seeks to take an appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Posner v. Posner
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.