Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2019
6 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 Brown v. United States · Craig v. Harney · In the Matter of Larry Little · Holt v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Clark v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The vehemence of the language used is not alone the measure of the power to punish for contempt. The fires which it kindles must constitute an imminent, not merely a likely, threat to the administration of justice. The danger must not be remote or even probable; it must immediately imperil.... [T]he law of contempt is not made for the protection of judges who may be sensitive to the winds of public opinion. Judges are supposed to be men of fortitude, able to thrive in a hardy climate." Craig v. Harney , 331 U.S. 367 , 376 [ 67 S.Ct. 1249 , 1255, 91 L.Ed. 1546 ] (1947). "Trial courts ... must be on guard against confusing offenses to their sensibilities with obstruction to the administration of justice." Brown v. United States , 356 U.S. 148 , 153 [ 78 S.Ct. 622 , 625, 2 L.Ed.2d 589 ] (1958).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he law of contempt is not made for the protection of judges who may be sensitive for the winds of public opinion. Judges are supposed to be men of fortitude, able to thrive in a hardy climate.... Trial Courts ... must be on guard against confusing offensives to their sensibilities with obstruction to the administration of justice....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hodges v. Gray“[The contempt power] must never be used to place judges above the law. The vital public respect for and faith in judicial institutions will, we believe, be enhanced by the extent to which we are able to solve our problems with patience as opposed to pique, holding our power in reserve.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hodges v. Gray
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.