In the Matter of Larry Little’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 5 district · 152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 334 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Kentucky v. Stincer (1987), Maness v. Meyers (1975)
104 federal appellate · 5 district · 152 state decisions — followed in 21 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
Relies on Brown v. United States · Mayberry v. Pennsylvania · Craig v. Harney · In the Matter of Criminal Contempt of Thomas C McConnell
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 334 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... must constitute an imminent, not merely a likely, threat to the administration of justice.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]rial courts ... must be on guard against confusing offenses to their sensibilities with obstruction to the administration of justice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Petitioner appeared and filed a written motion for continuance by reason of another trial engagement of his retained counsel in Charlotte. The trial judge denied the motion and proceeded with the trial. Without benefit of counsel petitioner attempted to defend himself. In summation following the close of the evidence petitioner made statements that the court was biased and had prejudged the case and that petitioner was a political prisoner.” Id. at 554.”
3 later decisions 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.