Sanchez v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
725 F.2d 29 · 1984
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably In re Crededio (1985), Humphrey v. Humphrey (2006)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Simkin v. United States · In re Grand Jury Investigation
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a broad discretion ... to determine that a civil contempt sanction has lost its coercive effect upon a particular contemnor at some point short of eighteen months.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the District Judge must determine, as best he can, whether the contemnor has persuaded him that continued confinement holds no realistic possibility of producing a willingness to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morgan v. Foretich
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.