11 Ohio App. 3d 164 - Pedone v. Pedone’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Pugh v. Pugh (1984), 113 Ohio App. 3d 708 - Carroll v. Detty (1996)
68 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 McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Windham Bank v. Tomaszczyk · 99 Ohio App. 428 - Beach v. Beach
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the dictates of the judicial decree are not followed, a contempt citation will result.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Civil contempt is defined as that which exists in failing to do something ordered to be done by the court in a civil action for the benefit of the opposing party therein.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose of sanctions in a case of civil contempt is to compel the contemnor to comply with lawful orders of a court, and the fact that the contemnor acted innocently and not in intentional disregard of a court order is not a defense to a charge of civil contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Babcock v. Babcock
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.