United States v. Joyce’s Empirical Analysis
498 F.2d 592 · 1974
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 1993 · most notably United States v. Kis (1981), Vertex Distributing, Inc. v. Falcon Foam Plastics, Inc. (1982)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Shillitani v. United States · United States v. Bryan · Reisman v. Caplin · Harris 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o one may be held in contempt for violating a court order unless the order is clear and specific and leaves no uncertainty in the minds of those to whom it is addressed”
2 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.