144 So. 2d 68 - Ballengee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2017
1 federal appellate · 16 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 Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Counselman v. Hitchcock · Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company · Nye v. United States · Anderson v. Dunn
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Criminal contempt proceedings are those brought to preserve the power and vindicate the dignity of the court and to punish for disobedience of its orders. Civil contempt proceedings are those instituted to preserve and enforce the rights of private parties to suits and to compel obedience to orders and decrees made for the benefit of such parties.” 12 Am.Jur., Contempt, § 6.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thiede v. State“the severity of the five-year prison sentence was not justified by the gravity of the offense”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Forbes v. State
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.