State v. Conley’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2013
12 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 Bridges v. State of California Times-Mirror Co · Craig v. Harney · Wood v. Georgia · Pennekamp v. Florida · Nye v. United States
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Whether the proceedings are civil or criminal, a contempt of court is in the nature of a criminal offense, and the proceeding for its punishment is criminal in its character, and the rules of evidence governing criminal trials are applicable. * * *.' 4 M.J. Contempt, Section 3, page 242. To the same effect, see 17 Am.Jur.2d, Contempt, Section 78, page 72; State ex rel. Alderson v. Cunningham, 33 W.Va. 607 , pt. 1 syl., 11 S.E. 76 ; State v. Davis, 50 W.Va. 100 , 40 S.E. 331 ; State ex rel. Continental Coal Co. v. Bittner, 102 W.Va. 677 , pt. 2 syl., 136 S.E. 202 , 49 A.L.R. 968 ; State ex rel. Taylor v. Devore, 134 W.Va. 151 , pt. 2 syl., 58 S.E.2d 641 ; State ex rel. Hoosier Engineering Co. v. Thornton, 137 W.Va. 230 , pt. 1 syl., 72 S.E.2d 203 ; State ex rel. Taft v. Cox [State ex rel. Cox v. Taft], 143 W.Va. 106 , pt. 2 syl., 100 S.E.2d 161 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In State ex rel. McNinch v. Porter, 105 W.Va. 441 , pt. 2 syl., 143 S.E. 93 , it was held that, notwithstanding the common law right of courts to punish for contempt, a circuit court may not proceed and punish summarily for acts other than those enumerated in the statute. To the same effect, see State v. Hansford, 43 W.Va. 773 , pt. 1 syl., 28 S.E. 791 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hile this court has held in many cases that a trial for criminal contempt `is a proceeding in the nature of a criminal trial,' or `a quasi criminal proceeding,' it has never held that a contempt proceeding is actually a criminal trial.”
1 later decision 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.