Morgan v. Foretich’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1073 · 28 U.S.C. § 1826
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Carnegie v. United States · Pullman-Standard v. Swint
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no decision of a court of appeals requiring a district court to take testimony from a contemnor on the issue of the utility of continued confinement or rejecting a district court's conclusion that such confinement is warranted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.