Millang v. Hahn’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Prchal v. Prchal (2011), Flattum-Riemers v. Flattum-Riemers (1999)
28 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 Shillitani v. United States · Van Dyke v. Van Dyke · State v. Mertz · Sampson v. State · GeoStar Corp. v. Parkway Petroleum, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sanction requiring payment of a sum of money is punitive if the sanction is not conditioned upon performance or nonperformance of an act, and if the sanction's purpose is to uphold the authority of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holkesvig v. Welte“sanction requiring payment of a sum of money is remedial if the sanction is imposed to compensate a party or complainant, other than the court, for loss or injury suffered as a result of the contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holkesvig v. Welte“[aln appeal is not moot if the [district] court's decision continues to have 'collateral consequences' for the appealing party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Free v. G.K.S.
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.