Odom v. Langston’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Teefey v. Teefey (1976), Wakefield v. Thorp (1955)
39 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 Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company · State ex rel. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Bland · Odom v. Langston · Odom v. Langston · Odom v. Langston
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“auxiliary to the main case in that it proceeds out of the original case”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A proceeding for civil contempt has as its object remedial punishment by way of a coercive imprisonment, or a compensatory fine, payable to the complainant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.