Ex Parte Joutsen’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 1976 · most notably 28 Cal. 2d 276 - Colbert v. Colbert (1946), 232 Cal. App. 2d 56 - Colvig v. RKO General, Inc. (1965)
31 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 Hite v. Hite · Ex parte Todd · Ex parte Barry · Baker v. Baker
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is said that an order in a contempt proceeding directing a party to be imprisoned until he has complied with the order requiring the payment of money is unlawful unless the party is able to make such payment. This may be conceded. We have no imprisonment for debt in this country. But, in the contempt proceeding under review, the court in terms found that the petitioner ‘at all times has been and now is able to pay such sums and the whole thereof.’ His offense for which he is being imprisoned is his failure to obey the order of the court when he has the ability to comply with it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Fuller
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.