Sigety v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
632 F.2d 969 · 1980
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2016
10 federal appellate ·
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 Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Shillitani v. United States · Maggio v. Zeitz · In re Debs
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The power to fine and imprison for contempt, from the earliest history of jurisprudence, has been regarded as a necessary incident and attribute of a court, without which it could no more exist than without a judge.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There can be no question that courts have inherent power to enforce compliance with their lawful order through civil contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As broad as the power of civil contempt may be, it does not include the power to punish for the crime of perjury . . . .”
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.