Marcum v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2007
14 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 Rudd v. Rudd · Melton v. Commonwealth · McBurnie v. Sullivan · Henry v. Wilson · Reeves v. Stewart
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question presented upon this record, set out with some detail, supra, is whether or not the' court had authority to enforce its judicial orders. Even conceding arguendo that any of the orders or rulings of the court hereinabove shown made were either irregularly or prematurely made, it nonetheless conclusively appears that the trial court making the complained of orders yet had jurisdiction of both the subject-matter and the parties to the action before it. “Further, it may be conceded that such being the case, the court was clothed with ample authority to enforce its judicial orders made against the parties in the trial of the case and to impose its sanction or punishment upon those acting in defiance or disobedience of its orders, as for their contempt of court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marcum v. Robinson
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.