Kenneth Childs v. Harvey M. Kaplan and Harvey Tessler’s Empirical Analysis
467 F.2d 628 · 1972
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2010
18 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Hoffman v. United States · Cobbledick v. United States · Di Bella v. United States · United States v. Ryan · United States v. Blue
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may refuse to comply and litigate [the appropriateness of the subpoena] ... in the event that contempt or similar proceedings are brought against him. Should his contentions be rejected at that time by the trial court, they will then be ripe for appellate review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]efendants still have an opportunity in a proceeding to find them in contempt of court for failure to obey the order ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re James Kujawa
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.