Leitstein v. Capital Co.’s Empirical Analysis
96 F.2d 23 · 1938
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Perlman v. United States · Ellis v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Brownson v. United States · Victor G. Bloede Co. of Baltimore City v. Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Punishment in criminal contempt cannot undo or remedy the thing which has been done, but in civil contempt punishment remedies the disobedience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to pay alimony, or to surrender property ordered to be turned over to a receiver, or to make a conveyance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to coerce the defendant to do the thing required by the order for the benefit of the complainant,”
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.