Smith v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 1050 · 1980
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Buffington v. Baltimore County (1990), Securities & Exchange Commission v. First Financial Group of Texas, Inc. (1981)
34 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 18 U.S.C. § 401 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Shillitani v. United States · McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Safir v. Kreps · In re Nevitt
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“designed to vindicate the authority of the court”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the apparent purpose of the trial court in issuing the contempt judgment,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there was some confusion as to whether the contempt proceeding was civil or criminal.”
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.