Yarbrough v. Yarbrough’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Kawamata Farms, Inc. v. United Agri Products (1997), Ivy v. Keith (2002)
25 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 Taylor v. Hayes · Dennison v. Mobley · Boatman v. Dawkins · Morrow v. Roberts · Spight 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Every court of record shall have power to punish, as for criminal contempt, persons guilty of the following acts, and no others: (1) Disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent behavior committed during the court’s sitting in-its immediate view and presence, and directly tending to interrupt its proceedings or to impair the respect due to its authority; (2) Any breach of the peace, noise, or disturbance directly tending to interrupt its proceedings; (3) Willful disobedience of any process or order lawfully issued or made by it; (4) Resistance, willfully offered, by any person to the lawful order or process of the court; and (5) The contumacious and unlawful refusal of any person to be sworn as a witness and, when so sworn, a similar refusal to answer any legal and proper interrogatory. (b) (1) Punishments for contempt may be by fine or imprisonment in the jail of the county where the court may be sitting, or both, in the discretion of the court. However, the fines shall in no case exceed the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) nor the imprisonment ten (10) days. (2) Courts shall always have power to imprison until their adjournment. (b) (3) When any person is committed to prison for the nonpayment of any such fine, he shall be discharged at the expiration of thirty (30) days. (c) Contempts committed in the immediate view and presence of the court may be punished summarily. In other cases, the party charged shall be notified of the accusation and shall have a reasonable time to make h”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“cannot abridge the power of the courts to punish for contempt in disobedience of their process; the Constitution specially reserved this inherent power in the courts, when delegating authority to the Legislature to regulate punishments for contempts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Damron v. Damron
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.