Shiflet v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Doe v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee (2003), Sherrod v. Wix (1992)
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 Robinson v. Air Draulics Engineering Company · Nashville Corp. v. United Steelworkers of America · State ex rel. Anderson v. Daugherty · Gunn v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A “civil contempt” is one where a person refuses or fails to comply with an order of court in a civil case; and punishment is meted at the instance and for the benefit of a party litigant. The proceeding is in furtherance of the right of a private person which the court determined that he, as a litigant, is entitled to. To this class of contempt belong such an act as the refusal to pay alimony, as ordered_ If imprisonment be ordered it is remedial and coercive in character, having relation to the compelling of the doing of something by the contemnor which when done will work his discharge. As has been said, in such case the one imprisoned “carries the keys to his prison in his own pocket....” “Criminal contempts,” on the other hand, are punitive in character, and the proceeding is to vindicate the authority of the law, and the court as an organ of society. Such contempts, while they may arise in private litigation, in a very true sense “raise an issue between the public and the accused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Turner
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.