Nilva v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 21 district · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 396 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Withrow v. Larkin (1975), Ungar v. Sarafite (1964)
160 federal appellate · 21 district · 115 state decisions — followed in 26 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · In re Oliver · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Wilson v. United States · United States v. White
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 396 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intentionally, and without `adequate excuse', defied the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the contempt charged involves disrespect to or criticism of”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A fair trial in a fair tribunal is a basic requirement of due process. Fairness of course requires an absence of actual bias in the trial of cases. But our system of law has always endeavored to prevent even the probability of unfairness. To this end no man can be a judge in his own case and no man is permitted to try cases where he has an interest in the outcome. That interest cannot be defined with precision. Circumstances and relationships must be considered. This Court has said, however, that "every procedure which would offer a possible temptation to the average man as a judge ... not to hold the balance nice, clear and true between the State and the accused, denies the latter due process of law."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.