Dunn v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
388 F.2d 511 · 1968
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 1984 · most notably Rush Pettway and Peter J. Wrenn v. American Cast Iron Pipe Company (1969), United States v. Dickinson (1972)
21 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2283
Relies on United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Donovan v. City of Dallas · Howat v. State of Kansas · Newton v. Kings County Lighting Co. · Hyde Construction Co. v. Koehring 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Dunn says that he had no free choice because the Mississippi court had ordered him to proceed with the trial before it. The record does not sustain the contention. Dunn further argues that his duty to his client required him to proceed with the Mississippi trial. Devotion to a client is no excuse for the violation of a court order. -X- * * -X- * *• “When a court has jurisdiction of the subject matter and person, its orders must be obeyed until reversed for error by orderly review. The district court had the requisite jurisdiction. Although it may be that Dunn did not have an opportunity to appeal the restraining order which had a life of only ten days, he should have obeyed it for that short period. The Supreme Court has said that: ‘Violations of an order are punishable as criminal contempt even though the order is set aside on appeal, . . .’””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether the Texas court would have punished petitioners for contempt had it known that the restraining order petitioners violated was invalid, we do not know. However, since that question was neither considered nor decided by the Texas court, we leave it for consideration by that court *514 on remand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the District Court acted on the assumption that its order was valid. We have held to the contrary with the result that Dunn is subjected to punishment for disobedience of an invalid order.”
1 later decision 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.