Tinsley v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
804 F.2d 1254 · 1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2004
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1927
Relies on Maggio v. Zeitz · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Train · Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen v. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad · Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority v. Amalgamated Transit Union, National Capital Local Division 689, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority v. Amalgamated Transit Union, National Capital Local Division 689, Its Membersand Individually · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Ormont Drug & Chemical Company Inc
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a party lacks the financial ability to comply with an order, the court cannot hold him in contempt for failing to obey.”
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.