McKenna v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2018
12 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 Ryan v. Kingsbery · Griggers v. Bryant · Clements v. Tillman · 170 Ga. App. 352 - Warehouse Carpet Sales & Service, Inc. v. S.C.J. Associates, Inc. · 149 Ga. App. 805 - London v. London
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a party is decreed to perform a duty or to do any act, other than the mere payment of money, which the court has jurisdiction to adjudge he shall do, if he disobeys, the authority of the court is defied; he is guilty of contempt. But if a court of equity should render a simple decree for money, on a simple money verdict, — a decree which it may now enforce by the ordinary common law process against property, the failure to pay the decree would not be a contempt, nor could compulsory process against the person of the party in default be resorted to to enforce payment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n the absence of statutory authority or other extraneous circumstances [not present here], contempt is not an available remedy to enforce a money judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. EDEN v. EDEN Et Al.“a money judgment may be enforced only by execution thereon, not by contempt proceedings.”
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.