Birchall’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably City of Worcester v. College Hill Properties, LLC (2013), MacDonald v. Caruso (2014)
2 federal appellate · 49 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
Relies on In re Oliver · International Union, United Mine Workers v. Bagwell · Maggio v. Zeitz · Young v. United States Ex Rel. Vuitton Et Fils S. A. · United States v. Rylander
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] civil contempt finding [must] be supported by clear and convincing evidence of disobedience of a clear and unequivocal command.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the order is ambiguous or the disobedience is doubtful, there cannot be a finding of contempt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“clear and undoubted disobedience of a clear and unequivocal command”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.