Thomassen v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
835 F.2d 727 · 1987
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably School Asbestos Litigation Pfizer Inc v. Kelly Kaiser Cement Corporation (1992), Cordero v. Jesus-Mendez Cordero (1989)
49 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 United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Alder v. United States · Backlund v. Barnhart · Sealy Incorporated v. Easy Living Inc · Beaudry Motor Co. v. Abko Properties, 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the contempt order naturally falls because it is predicated on”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A long line of precedent holds that once a civil contempt order is purged, no live case or controversy remains for adjudication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the purging of the contempt ordinarily renders the controversy moot”
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.