Juidice v. Vail’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
848 federal appellate · 353 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,400 later decisions (78 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. (1982), Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. (1982)
848 federal appellate · 353 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Warth v. Seldin · Younger v. Harris · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Monroe v. Pape · Paul v. Davis
Cited together with Younger v. Harris · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Trainor v. Hernandez · Moore v. Sims · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n
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 2,400 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] State's interest in the contempt process, through which it vindicates the regular operation of its judicial system, ... is surely an important interest.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“stands in aid of the authority of the judicial system, so that its orders and judgments are not rendered nugatory.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“is motivated by a desire to harass or is conducted in bad faith,”
19 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.