Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably In re Daniel C. (2001), Szczerkowski v. Karmelowicz (2000)
40 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 Gallo v. Gallo · Nor'easter Group, Inc. v. Colossale Concrete, Inc. · Papa v. New Haven Federation of Teachers · Cologne v. Westfarms Associates · Tomasso Bros. v. October Twenty-Four, Inc.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] finding of contempt for conduct that has allegedly occurred outside the presence of the court may not be based solely on unsworn representations of counsel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“technically limited to questions of jurisdiction such as whether [the magistrate] had authority to impose the punishment and whether the act or acts for which the penalty was imposed could constitute a contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] court may not find a person in contempt without considering the circumstances surrounding the violation to determine whether such violation was wilful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.