Goodrum v. Goodrum’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Connell v. Connell (1966), Lipton v. Lipton (1955)
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 Girtman v. Girtman · In re Fite · Van Dyke v. Van Dyke · Gaston v. Shunk Plow Co. · Bilbo v. Bilbo
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.
“The theory upon which the right of a court to punish for contempt is [based], [is] that “Every court has power to compel obedience to its judgments, orders, and processes.” [Cit.] It necessarily follows that, “Only the court offended . . . has power to punish for the contempt, or to entertain proceedings to that end.” [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Only the court offended . . . has power to punish for the contempt, or to entertain proceedings to that end.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gore v. Gore
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.