Project Basic v. Kemp Phoenix-Griffin Group II Ltd’s Empirical Analysis
947 F.2d 11 · 1991
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 26 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably United States v. Voss (1996), Armstrong
41 federal appellate · 26 district · 6 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 Shillitani v. United States · United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois · International Longshoremen's Ass'n, Local 1291 v. Philadelphia Marine Trade Ass'n · In re Disbarment of Morrison
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“civil contempt will lie only if the putative contemnor has violated an order that is clear and unambiguous”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowles Financial Group, Inc. v. Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc., Larry D. Bishop, Movant-Appellant · Scott Armstrong Gary M. Stern Eddie Becker National Security Archive Center for National Security Studies, American Historical Association and American Library Association v. Executive Office of the President, Office of Administration National Security Council Trudy Peterson, Acting Archivist of the United States White House Communications Agency, Scott Armstrong Gary M. Stern Eddie Becker National Security Archive Center for National Security Studies v. Executive Office of the President, Office of Administration National Security Council Trudy Peterson, Acting Archivist of the United States White House Communications Agency, (Two Cases) Scott Armstrong Gary M. Stern Eddie Becker National Security Archive Center for National Security Studies American Historical Association American Library Association v. Executive Office of the President, Office of Administration National Security Council Trudy Peterson, Acting Archivist of the United States White House Communications Agency“the party enjoined must be able to ascertain from the four corners of the order precisely what acts are forbidden”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“id. at 17 (quoting International Longshoremen's Ass'n, Local 1291 v. Philadelphia Marine Trade Ass'n, 389 U.S. 64 , 76, 88 S.Ct. 201, 208, 19 L.Ed.2d 236 (1967)) nor were”
4 later decisions 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.