in Re Douglas W McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2017
2 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Bloom v. Illinois · National Farmers Union Insurance v. Crow Tribe of Indians · Mayberry v. Pennsylvania · Taylor v. Hayes · Sacher v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entered a lawful order of reasonable specificity”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The essential elements of criminal contempt are that the court entered a lawful order of reasonable specificity, it was violated, and the violation was willful. Whether the order is reasonably specific is a question of fact and must be evaluated in the context in which it is entered and the audience to which it is addressed. In criminal contempt, willfulness means a deliberate or intended violation, as distinguished from an accidental, inadvertent, or negligent violation of an order. Each of these elements must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in order to determine guilt and impose punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court of the United States shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment, at its discretion, such contempt of its authority, and none other, as— (1)Misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice; (2) Misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions; (3) Disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.”
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.