Ex parte Creasy’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Clark v. Austin (1937), 20 Ala. App. 514 - Robertson v. State (1924)
94 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 Ex parte Lange · Fisk · People Ex Rel. Tweed v. . Liscomb · Kearney · State ex inf. Crow v. Shepherd
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Nor can the court make contempt of that which is not contempt. And every attempt to do so would be in excess of authority or jurisdiction, as much so as if the court had no authority or power to punish for contempt, either in relation to the person or subject-matter. There must be contempt in order to justify punishment for that offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Hutton
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.