113 Ohio App. 3d 708 - Carroll v. Detty’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably In re Contemnor Caron (2000), Frey v. Frey (2011)
89 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 In re Jane Doe 1 · Berk v. Matthews · Rock v. Cabral · Brown v. Executive 200, Inc. · State ex rel. Fogle v. Steiner
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Contempt is a disregard of, or disobedience to, an order or command of judicial authority.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he burden of proof in a civil contempt action is clear and convincing evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`While both types of contempt contain an element of punishment, courts distinguish criminal and civil contempt not on the basis of punishment, but rather, by the character and purpose of the punishment. * * * Punishment is remedial or coercive and for the benefit of the complainant in civil contempt. Prison sentences are conditional. The contemnor is said to carry the keys of his prison in his own pocket * * * since he will be freed if he agrees to do as ordered.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.