Littlejohn v. Bic Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The Court’s civil contempt power . . . is discretionary and should be exercised with caution . . . .”
• “Even where no finding of contempt is made, the Court may award complainant in a civil contempt proceeding attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred in the attempt to ensure the enforcement of the Court’s Order”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Police Commissioner v. Gows
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-02-17· cited 43×
• United States v. Richlyn Laboratories, Inc.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1993-03-30· cited 3×
• Cottman Transmission Systems, Inc. v. Melody
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1994-04-22· cited 1×
• Cottman Transmission Systems, Inc. v. Melody
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1994-04-25

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Littlejohn v. BIC Corp.
  Third Circuit· 1988-07-06· cited 200×
• Rodney W. Quinter v. Volkswagen of America, Volkswagen of Atlantic, Inc., Volkswagenwerk, A. G., Byron Bloch
  Third Circuit· 1982-04-19· cited 113×
• Fox v. Capital Co.
  Third Circuit· 1938-04-25· cited 45×
• Thompson v. Johnson
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1976-04-08· cited 42×