124 N.J. Super. 428 - In Re Manna’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2001
2 district · 7 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 National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · See v. City of Seattle · Sweezy v. State of New Hampshire C Wyman · Baldwin v. New York
Most-quoted passages
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“Civil contempt is employed as a coercive sanction to compel the witness to do what the law made it his duty to do. Penfield Co. v. S.E.C., 330 U.S. 585, 590 , 67 S.Ct. 918, 921 , 91 L.Ed. 1117, 1123 (1947). Civil contempt is designed to provide a litigant with a remedy against his opponent's refusal to do what he ought to do. [ In re Manna, supra, 124 N.J.Super. at 438 , 307 A. 2d 619 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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