421 So. 2d 366 - Nelson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2010
13 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 312 So. 2d 289 - Meyer v. STATE, DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY LIC. CON., ETC. · NEW ORLEANS FIRE FIGHTERS ASS'N LOC. 632 v. City of New Orleans · 385 So. 2d 912 - City of Monroe v. Evans · Wright v. Department of Highways
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“wilful disobedience of any lawful judgment, order, mandate, writ, or process of the court.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ferry v. Ferry · Klein v. Copeland“"A contempt of court is any act or omission tending to obstruct or interfere with the orderly administration of justice, or to impair the dignity of the court or respect for its authority."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ferry v. Ferry · Maggio v. Robinson“an act or failure to act that is done intentionally, knowingly and purposely, without justifiable excuse.”
4 later decisions 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.