In Re Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Marcone (1980), Commonwealth v. Garrison (1978)
59 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 18 U.S.C. § 401
Relies on Mullaney v. Wilbur · Herring v. New York · Mayberry v. Pennsylvania · Craig v. Harney · Nye 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The power of the several courts of this commonwealth to issue attachments and to inflict summary punishments for contempts of court shall be restricted to the following cases, to-wit: "I. To the official misconduct of the officers of such courts respectively; "II. To disobedience or neglect by officers, parties, jurors or witnesses of or to the lawful processes of the court; "III. To the misbehavior of any person in the presence of the court, thereby obstructing the administration of justice." (Emphasis added.)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“". . . [S]ubsection III grants the court power to ensure that lawsuits will be heard in a manner conducive to the just and orderly resolution of the issues presented. Any conduct `in the presence of the court' which `obstructs the administration of justice' may be punished under this grant of power. The third subdivision requires no formal order, but rather incorporates an implicit standard of decorum within the presence of the court."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]or conduct to be an obstruction of the administration of justice, it must interfere with and disrupt the orderly process of a court.”
4 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.