Gould v. Sessions’s Empirical Analysis
67 F. 163 · 1895
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1910
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Worden v. Searls · New Orleans v. The Steamship Company · Hobbie v. Jennison · Sessions v. Gould · Sessions v. Gould
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Contempt of court is a specific criminal offense. The imposition of the fine was .*> judgment in a criminal case. That part of the decree is as distinct from the residue as if it wore a judgment upon an indictment for perjury committed in a deposition read, at the hearing.””
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.