United States v. Gedraitis’s Empirical Analysis
690 F.2d 351 · 1982
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2011
8 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Burks v. United States · Taylor v. Hayes · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · Muniz v. Hoffman · Frank v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'potential penalties for such contempts do not exceed misdemeanors, as defined in 18 U.S.C.Sec. 1.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n prosecutions for criminal contempt where no maximum penalty is authorized, the severity of the penalty actually imposed is the best indication of the seriousness of the particular offense”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ontempt does not fall within the general classification of felony or misdemeanor,”
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.