2002 Pa. Super. 34 - Diamond v. Diamond’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2025
15 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 274 Pa. Super. 54 - Rouse Philadelphia Inc. v. Ad Hoc '78 · 2001 Pa. Super. 50 - Lachat v. Hinchliffe · 2001 Pa. Super. 137 - Nemirovsky v. Nemirovsky · 338 Pa. Super. 376 - Schnabel Assoc. v. BLDG. & CONST. TRADES · Schnabel Associates, Inc. v. Building & Construction Trades Council
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the dominant purpose is to vindicate the dignity and authority of the court and to protect the interest of the general public, it is a proceeding for criminal contempt. But where the act of contempt complained of is the refusal to do or refrain from doing some act ordered or prohibited primarily for the benefit of a private party, proceedings to enforce compliance with the decree of the court are civil in nature. The purpose of a civil contempt proceeding is remedial. Judicial sanctions are employed to coerce the defendant into compliance with the court’s order, and in some instances, to compensate the complainant for losses sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Attorneys’ fees and other disbursements necessitated by the contemnor’s noncompliance may be recovered by the aggrieved party in a civil contempt case. Because an award of counsel fees is intended to reimburse an innocent litigant for expenses made necessary by the conduct of an opponent, it is coercive and compensatory, and not punitive. Counsel fees are a proper element of a civil contempt order. In reviewing a grant of attorney’s fees, we will not disturb the decision below absent a clear abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Furthermore [e]ach court is the exclusive judge of contempts against its process, and on appeal its actions will be reversed only when a plain abuse of discretion occurs. In civil contempt cases, the complaining party has the burden of proving non-compliance with the court order by a preponderance of the evidence.”
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.