United States v. Christie Industries, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
465 F.2d 1002 · 1972
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably United States ex rel. Internal Revenue Service v. Norton (1983), Eavenson, Auchmuty & Greenwald v. Holtzman (1985)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1261 (Child Protection Act of 1966) · 15 U.S.C. § 1263 · 18 U.S.C. § 401
Relies on United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Grunewald v. United States · United States v. Stromberg · Kravarick v. Colorado · Yates 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“long-standing, salutary rule in contempt cases is that ambiguities and omissions in orders redound to the benefit of the person charged with contempt”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a person will not be held in contempt ... unless the order has given him fair warning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Christie was under an obligation to take steps to insure that violations of the order would not occur, (emphasis added)”
1 later decision 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.