McCullough v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2026
17 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Cannon v. United States · Ivy v. Keith · Bolden v. State · Johnson v. Johnson
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 17 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) Punishment for contempt is a Class C misdemeanor. (2) A court shall always have power to imprison until its adjournment. (3) When any person is committed to prison for the nonpayment of any such fine, he or she 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 his or her defense. (d)(1) Whenever any person is committed for a contempt under the provisions of this section, the substance of his or her offense shall be set forth in the order or warrant of commitment. (2) Nothing in ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requiring DHS to present all relevant evidence in dependency-neglect proceedings, as opposed to requiring DHS to present only evidence that supports its stated position. II. The Law of Contempt On appeal from an order of contempt, this court views the record in the light most favorable to the circuit court's decision, and it will sustain the decision if it is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Parties are bound on appeal by the scope and nature of the objections and arguments they presented at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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