State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Tobey v. Tobey (1974), Papa v. New Haven Federation of Teachers (1982)
71 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 German v. German · Goodhart v. State · Middlebrook v. State · Lyon v. Lyon · Welch v. Barber
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From CT Page 3160 necessity the court must be its own judge of contempts committed within its presence. In such a case it may act of its own motion without any charge, formal or otherwise being presented, without evidence, and solely upon facts within its own knowledge. If it has jurisdiction, there can be no review of its action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An adjudication of contempt is final and may be reviewed only on questions of jurisdiction such as whether the court had authority to impose the punishment inflicted and whether the act or acts for which the penalty was imposed could constitute a *Page 550 contempt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Without the power, a court would be helpless against persons disposed to obstruct, delay or thwart it.”
2 later decisions 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.