In re Chiles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 federal appellate · 9 district · 13 state decisions

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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Section 725 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 583) declares that the courts of the United States shall have power to punish by fine and imprisonment for'contempts of their authority. And among the cases specially enumerated are ‘disobedience or resistancé by any officer of the court, or by any party, juror, witness, or other person, to any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of the said courts.’ Such has always been the-power of the courts, both of common law and equity. The exercise of this power has a twofold aspect, namely, first, the proper punishment of the guilty pai*ty for.his disrespect to the court or.its order, and the second, to compel his performance of some act or duty required of him by the court, which he refuses to perform. “In the former case, the court must judge for itself the nature and extent of the punishment, with reference to the gravity of the offense. In the latter ease,- the party refusing to obey should be fined and imprisoned until he performs the act required of him, or shows that it is not in his power to do it.””

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eureka Lake & Yuba Canal Co. v. Superior Court · Worden v. Searls

2. ““The party refusing to obey should be fined and imprisoned until he performs the act required of him or shows that it is not in his power to do it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Elias