James v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2009
10 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 Arceneaux v. Domingue · 352 So. 2d 1013 - Halcomb v. Halcomb · 347 So. 2d 883 - Lambert v. Adams · Lambert v. Lambert · Earnest v. Earnest
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Under La.CCP 224 and our jurisprudence, it must be shown that the alleged offender willfully disobeyed a direct order of the court issued prior to the contempt rule; otherwise he should not be held in contempt."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ferry v. Ferry
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.