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← 136 NH 267 - State v. Wallace

State v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
May 2012
most recently cited

11 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2012

11 state decisions

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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 Hicks Ex Rel. Feiock v. Feiock · State v. Linsky · Town of Nottingham v. Cedar Waters, Inc. · Coleman v. Coleman · Mason Furniture Corp. v. George

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We hold that the inability to comply with the court’s order, whether in civil or criminal contempt proceedings, is a defense and, therefore, should be raised by the defendant_Generally, when a defendant introduces evidence regarding a defense to a criminal offense, the State must disprove that defense beyond a reasonable doubt. Accordingly, once the defendant introduces evidence regarding inability to comply in a criminal contempt proceeding, the burden then shifts to the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant intentionally did not comply with the order. In the support context, intentional noncompliance is evident where the paying spouse has the ability to pay and refuses to comply with the order or voluntarily impairs his or her ability to comply, for example by voluntary unemployment or underemployment.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re Warner

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.