Ferrell v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
785 F.2d 1372 · 1986
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Francine Klingman v. Melvin E. Levinson (1987), Gray v. Lacke (1989)
34 federal appellate · 1 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 12 U.S.C. § 1715U
Relies on Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Arizona v. California · United States v. Mendoza · Advanced Hydraulics, Inc. v. Otis Elevator 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be able to point to a decree from the court which 'set[s] forth in specific detail an unequivocal command' which the party in contempt violated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the court must be able to point to a decree from the court which `set[s] forth in specific detail an unequivocal command' which the party in contempt violated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Collateral estoppel, which is also known as issue preclusion, generally prevents a party from relitigating an issue the party has already litigated and lost.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.