Perry III v. O'Donnell M’s Empirical Analysis
759 F.2d 702 · 1985
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Food Lion, Incorporated v. United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Afl-Cio-Clc, United Steelworkers of America, Afl-Cio-Clc (1997), General Signal Corp. v. Donallco, Inc. (1986)
31 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Fleischmann Distilling Corp. v. Maier Brewing Co. · Kerr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It matters not whether the disobedience is willful[;] the cost of bringing the violation to the attention of the court is part of the damages suffered by the prevailing party and those costs would reduce any benefits gained by the prevailing party from the court's violated order.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trial court should have the discretion to analyze each contempt case individually and decide whether an award of fees and expenses is appropriate as a remedial measure,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Civil contempt need not be willful to justify a discretionary award of attorneys fees and expenses as a remedial measure.”
2 later decisions 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.