Smith-Cooper v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 state decisions

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A willful act is one which is 'done voluntarily and intentionally with the specific intent to do something the law forbids, or with the specific intent to fail to do something the law requires to be done; that is to say, with bad purpose either to disobey or disregard the law.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stoney v. Stoney

2. “the court's only function is to interpret its lawful meaning and the intent of the parties as found within the agreement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miles v. Miles

3. “Where a contemnor is unable, without fault on his part, to obey an order of the court, he is not to be held in contempt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stoney v. Stoney