Bloom v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
600 federal appellate · 73 district · 1,126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,231 later decisions (82 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Bell v. Wolfish (1979)
600 federal appellate · 73 district · 1,126 state decisions — followed in 48 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3141 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3692 · 18 U.S.C. § 401 · 18 U.S.C. § 402 · 42 U.S.C. § 1995 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000H
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Pointer v. Texas · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Malloy v. Hogan · United States v. United Mine Workers of America
Cited together with Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Cheff v. Schnackenberg · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Taylor v. Hayes · Cooke v. United States
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 2,231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Criminal contempt is a crime in the ordinary sense,”
58 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A criminal contempt may be punished summarily if the judge certifies that he saw or heard the conduct constituting the contempt and that it was committed in the actual presence of the court.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““A court of the United States shall have power to punish * * * such contempt of its authority * * * as— “(1) Misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice * * *. [Emphasis added.]””
9 later decisions 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.