Hughes v. Browne’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Before a person may be held in contempt for violating a court order, the order should inform him in definite terms as to the duties thereby imposed upon him, and the (command must therefore be express) rather than implied. . . .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hall v. Nelson · Earthgrains Baking Co. v. Bird

2. “"Before a person may be held in contempt for violating a court order, the order should inform him in definite terms as to the duties thereby imposed upon him, and the (command must therefore be express) rather than implied. . . ." [Cit.] Furthermore, the very nature of the proceeding in either civil or criminal contempt for an alleged disobedience of a court order requires that the language in the commands be clear and certain.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hall v. Nelson

3. “not proscribe any certain conduct, nor [did] it provide definite terms or duties with which [Appellant] must comply.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hall v. Nelson