2002 Pa. Super. 145 - Commonwealth v. Kolansky’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2024
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 Dernovesk v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Marcone · Knarr v. Erie Insurance Exchange · 337 Pa. Super. 410 - Fenstamaker v. Fenstamaker · 387 Pa. Super. 79 - Commonwealth v. Martorano
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.
“[W]hen reviewing a contempt conviction, much reliance is given to the discretion of the trial judge. Accordingly, [the appellate court is] confined to a determination of whether the facts support the trial court decision. Williams v. Williams, [ ] 452 Pa.Super. 52 , 681 A.2d 181, 183 ([Pa.Super.]1996)[.] We will reverse a trial court’s determination only when there has been a plain abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) The [court’s] order or decree must be definite, clear, specific and leave no doubt or uncertainty in the mind of the person to whom it was addressed of the conduct prohibited; (2) The contemnor must have had notice of the specific order or decree; (3) The act constituting the violation must have been volitional; and (4) The contemnor must have acted with wrongful intent.”
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.