270 Ga. App. 712 - Rhone v. Bolden’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 187 Ga. App. 594 - Moore v. Goldome Credit Corp. · 229 Ga. App. 160 - Desai v. Silver Dollar City, Inc. · 217 Cal. App. 3d 1258 - Goldberg v. Frye · Crawford v. Crawford · 160 Ga. App. 692 - Fletcher v. Amax, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The distinction between criminal and civil contempt is that criminal contempt imposes unconditional punishment for prior contempt to preserve the court's authority and to punish disobedience of its orders. Civil contempt, on the other hand, is conditional punishment which coerces the contemnor to comply with the court order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Once an act has been determined to constitute contempt of court, the action the court takes to deal with the contempt determines whether the contempt is deemed 'criminal' contempt or 'civil' contempt.”
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.