Wolfe v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
681 F.2d 1302 · 1982
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2010
13 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Sibron v. State of New York Peters · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · In re Oliver · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Taylor v. Hayes
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Civil contempt is designed to coerce the contemnor to comply with a court order, and a civil contempt action is brought by a private party, not the court.... The contemnor always has the ability to purge himself of contempt by obeying the court order. Criminal contempt is punitive rather than remedial. It punishes disobedience of the court’s order as vindication of the court’s authority. The contemnor serves a fixed sentence and cannot gain release by complying with the order.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Dervaes
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.