Evans v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1990
19 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 Ramsay v. Ramsay · Grace v. State · Ramsay v. Ramsay · Collins v. Collins · Magee v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... provide respectively for criminal and for civil or quasi criminal contempts. Order for imprisonment in the former case for a past and completed act or omission, is punitory and must be suffered; in the latter case the punishment is coercive and the contemnor may discharge himself by compliance with the terms of the decree violated. The first is to preserve the power and vindicate the dignity of the court; the latter is to compel obedience to its decrees... ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“i i * # * “Regardless of the rule as to the essentials of a prima facie case in civil contempt, mere proof of failure to pay alimony without more is not sufficient to make a case of proof beyond a reasonable doubt of an intent deliberately and contumaciously to defy the power and dignity of the court justifying* imprisonment as for criminal contempt. Not only the procedure but the proof must reasonably conform to practice in criminal cases.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“until the rule, order, or judgment shall be complied with.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.