Wright v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.3d 1248 · 1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Caviness v. Nucor-Yamato Steel Co. (1997), United States v. Guerra (1997)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 United States v. Olano · United States v. Atkinson · International Union, United Mine Workers v. Bagwell · Young v. United States Ex Rel. Vuitton Et Fils S. A. · J. Gordon Turnbull, Inc. v. Commissioner
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'means a deliberate or intended violation, as distinguished from an accidental, inadvertent, or negligent violation of any order,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review the District Court's decision to enter a contempt order for abuse of discretion, giving plenary review to conclusions of law and reviewing factual findings for clear error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“seriously affect[s] the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
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.