Grimm v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2017
20 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 Ray v. State · State Ex Rel. Stanton v. Murray · Francis v. People of Virgin Islands · Blankenbaker v. State · Tendler v. Tendler
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t is of the utmost importance in a free society that the power to punish for contempt be not misused as in cases where it is utilized to protect the personal or individual feelings of a judge. As was stated in Francis v. People of Virgin Islands, 3 Cir., 1926, 11 F.2d 860, 865 , certiorari denied Francis v. Williams, 273 U.S. 693 , 47 S.Ct. 91 , 71 L.Ed. 843 , it is said: ‘... In our jurisprudence the extraordinary action of contempt of court does not lie to heal the wounded sensibilities of a judge; it may be invoked only when the offending act impedes or disturbs the administration of justice ....’” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Russell v. State““So long as critics [of court] confine their criticism to facts and base them upon the decisions of the court they commit no contempt no matter how severe the criticism may be; but when they pass beyond that line and charge that judicial conduct was influenced by improper, .corrupt or selfish motives, or that such conduct was affected by political prejudice or interest, the tendency is to poison the foundation of justice and create distrust, and destroy the confidence of the people in their courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Skolnick v. State““In fact, the trial judge himself did not until some days after the alleged conduct took place, when considering the motion to reconsider and the motion for new trial, enter its Finding that the conduct on the previous hearing was contemptuous, and thereupon modify and ‘clarify’ its Finding and judgment to such effect, and it is our view that appellant’s conviction cannot stand upon such a state of the record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Russell v. State
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.