29 Wash. App. 193 - State v. Heiner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2021
17 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 Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company · Blanchard v. Golden Age Brewing Co. · McDaniel v. McDaniel · 85 Wash. 2d 278 - Mead School District No. 354 v. Mead Education Ass'n
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he imposition of a fixed term of imprisonment pursuant to the civil contempt statute is improper where the contemnor is given no opportunity to purge the contempt through compliance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every court of justice, and every judicial officer has power to punish contempt by fine or imprisonment, or both. But such fine shall not exceed three hundred dollars, nor the imprisonment six months; and when the contempt is not of those mentioned in RCW 7.20.010(1) and (2), it must appear that the right or remedy of a party to an action, suit or proceeding was defeated or prejudiced thereby, before the contempt can be punished otherwise than by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) to punish summarily contemptuous conduct occurring in the presence of the court; (2) to enforce orders or judgments in aid of the court's jurisdiction; and (3) to punish violations of orders or judgments.”
2 later decisions 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.