Russell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 401
Relies on Brown v. United States · Craig v. Harney · Exxon Corp. v. Department of Revenue of Wisconsin · In the Matter of Criminal Contempt of Thomas C McConnell · In the Matter of Larry Little
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is of the utmost importance in a free society that the power to punish for contempt be not misused as in cases when it is utilized to protect the personal or individual feelings of the judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacOn v. State
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.