In Re Markowitz’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 272nd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte Barnett · Ex Parte Gordon · Bender v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co. · Ex Parte Rohleder · Ex Parte Shaffer
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the ‘short and reasonable time’ requirement is to prevent the trial court from placing a person in jail indefinitely without any method of purging himself of the contempt and without knowledge of why he is being held in contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Mott
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.