337 Pa. Super. 410 - Fenstamaker v. Fenstamaker’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 431 Pa. Super. 588 - Smith v. Smith (1993), Garr v. Peters (2001)
44 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 Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. · In Re Martorano · Commonwealth v. Marcone · Commonwealth v. Garrison · 251 Pa. Super. 43 - In Re Grand Jury, April Term, Wayne Cty.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The [court’s] order or decree must be definite, clear, specific and leave no doubt or uncertainty in the mind of the person to whom it was addressed of the conduct prohibited; (2) The contemnor must have had notice of the specific order or decree; (3) The act constituting the violation must have been volitional; and (4) The contemnor must have acted with wrongful intent.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“A direct criminal contempt consists of misconduct of a person in the presence of the court, or disobedience to or neglect of the lawful process of the court, or misbehavior so near thereto as to interfere with the immediate business of the court.”
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.