McDonald's Corp. v. Victory Investments’s Empirical Analysis
727 F.2d 82 · 1984
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Roe v. Operation Rescue (1990), Thomassen v. United States (1987)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2007
Relies on Singleton v. Wulff · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Hutto v. Finney · Hormel v. Helvering · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... look to the future and are designed to aid the plaintiff by bringing a defiant party into compliance with the court order or by assuring that a potentially contumacious party adheres to an injunction by setting forth in advance the penalties the court will impose if the party deviates from the path of obedience (emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to coerce the defendant into compliance with the court's order and to compensate for losses sustained by the disobedience.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] person shall not be imprisoned for debt on a writ of execution or other process issued from a court of the United States in any State wherein imprisonment for debt has been abolished.”
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.