Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Maryland v. Dyson (1999), 133 Md. App. 442 - Berringer v. Steele (2000)
1 district · 69 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Dixon · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Shillitani v. United States · International Union, United Mine Workers v. Bagwell
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder Rule 15-207, the finding of civil contempt does not pose an immediate threat of incarceration to the contemnor. Maryland law has long required a distinct regimen of substantive and procedural safeguards for persons found to be in civil contempt of a support enforcement order. “Only if [the contemnor] fails to show [a present ] inability [to pay] is ... subsequent imprisonment permitted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he procedural component to this restrictive requirement is that any party judged to be a civil contemnor must be afforded the opportunity to show a present inability to purge the [past ] contempt; “Where the order calls for the payment of money, the defendant is entitled to the ‘opportunity to show that he [or she] had neither the estate nor the ability to pay his [or her] obligation.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“by allowing a court to make a finding of constructive civil contempt in a support enforcement action even if the alleged contemnor does not have the present ability to purge. In support enforcement cases, as in other civil contempt cases, after making a finding of contempt, the court may specify imprisonment as the sanction if the contemnor has the present ability to purge the contempt. If the eontemnor does not have the present ability to purge the contempt, an example of a direction to perform specified acts that a court may include in an order under subsection (e)(4) is a provision that an unemployed, able-bodied eontemnor look for work and periodically provide evidence of the efforts made. If the eontemnor fails, without just cause, to comply with any provision of the order, a criminal contempt proceeding may be brought based on a violation of that provision. (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rawlings v. Rawlings
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