116 Md. App. 720 - Schwartz v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
June 2016
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 109 Md. App. 1 - Wagner v. Wagner · Wills v. Jones · 90 Md. App. 406 - John O. v. Jane O. · Lynch v. Lynch · Elzey v. Elzey
Most-quoted passages
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“The conduct which precipitates the initiation of contempt proceedings is the alleged failure, in contravention of a court order, to do that which has been ordered done or the doing of that which is prohibited. When that conduct has been proven, the defendant may be held in contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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