In re Popejoy’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1999
21 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 Galland v. Galland · Daniels v. Daniels · Garland v. Garland · Hanscom v. Hanscom · People ex rel. Burchinell v. District Court
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * it is also urged by counsel for petitioner that, under Section 12, Article 2, of the Constitution, which prohibits imprisonment for debt, except in special cases, his imprisonment is unlawful. This constitutional provision against imprisonment for debt does not prohibit the punishment of a contempt in refusing to obey the lawful orders or decrees of a court; and in this case it appears that the petitioner is not imprisoned for a debt, but because of his refusal to obey the lawful order of the court with reference to the debt represented by the judgment in favor of his wife.”-”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roberts v. Fuller““The writ of habeas corpus cannot be made to serve the purpose of a writ of error, and whether or not the evidence taken at this hearing- was sufficient to justify the court in committing petitioner for contempt, if he failed to pay the judgment rendered, we are precluded from examining in this proceeding. People [ex rel. Burchinell] v. District Court, 22 Colo. 422 , 45 P. 402 . If the trial court erred in this respect, the remedy of petitioner is by a direct, and not the collateral, attack which he seeks to make by this action. Williamson’s Case, 26 Pa. 9 [ 67 Am. Dec. 374 ].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Inasmuch as the petitioner [for habeas corpus ] . . . appears to have voluntarily submitted to such arrest and removal . . . he has waived the right to raise this question by voluntarily accompanying the sheriff to the county of Arapahoe.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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