Fox v. Capital Co.’s Empirical Analysis
96 F.2d 684 · 1938
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Schauffler ex rel. National Labor Relations Board v. Local 1291, International Longshoremen's Ass'n (1961), Root Refining Co. v. Universal Oil Products Co. (1948)
20 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 California Artificial Stone Paving Co. v. Molitor · Leitstein v. Capital Co. · Hanley v. Pacific Live Stock Co. · General Electric Co. v. McLaren · Electro-Bleaching Gas Co. v. Paradon Engineering 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiff has a heavy burden to show a defendant guilty of civil contempt. It must be done by clear and convincing evidence, and where there is ground to doubt the wrongfulness of the conduct of the defendant, he should not be adjudged in contempt.”
15 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.