Wojahn v. Halter’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2010
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Commonwealth Ex Rel. Di Giacomo v. Heston · Wenger v. Wenger · In re Snell · State ex rel. Bales v. Bailey · Burford v. Lucas
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A lawful order or decree presupposes authority on the part of the court to make it. Where such authority is lacking, the order is not lawful, and the failure to obey it cannot be made a basis for a finding of contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Andrasko“The term “debt” as used in Minn. Const, art. l '§ 12, means an obligation to pay money for something due and owing from one to another arising out of a contract, express or implied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an obligation to pay support for a child * * * or alimony * * * is not a debt within the meaning of the constitutional prohibition against imprisonment for debt.”
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.