In Re Thomas W Farquhar’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Eash v. Riggins Trucking Inc. (1985), Commonwealth v. Marcone (1980)
11 federal appellate · 12 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 Sykes v. United States · Montrose Chemical Corp. v. Train · Klein v. United States · In Re David C Niblack · In Re George Gates
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court of the United States shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment, at its discretion, such contempt of its authority, and none other, as— (1) Misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice; (3) Disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“disobedience and resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“conduct discloses a reckless disregard for his professional duty.”
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.