Widman v. Widman’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wilder Corp. v. Wilke · Johnson v. Johnson · Noisette v. Ismail · Rutherford v. Rutherford · Jenkins v. Jenkins
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 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 passagee.g. Stoney v. Stoney“[B]efore a court may find a person in contempt, the record must clearly and specifically reflect the contemptuous conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Kent
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.