Bronk v. Bronk’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1992
11 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 Hovey v. Elliott · Woodson v. State · State v. Ackerson · People ex rel. Crymble v. Horton · Caro v. Pensacola City Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The appellant having, since he took this appeal, voluntarily placed himself in contempt of the orders of the court below, and having gone beyond the jurisdiction of this court, so that no order or decree it might make in the premises could be personally enforced against him, we are confronted with the question whether he has a right to a hearing on questions based on the injunction and ne exeat orders. Doubtless the general rule is that a party is not deprived of any strict legal right to be heard by placing himself in contempt of the court, especially if there be other means available by which the court may enforce its orders. ... Governed by these views, we decline to entertain and hear the assignments of error of John P. Bronk numbered 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7." (Emphasis supplied.) 35 So. 870 , at 871.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"In this state it is decided that an appellate court will refuse to hear a criminal case on writ of error where the plaintiff in error has escaped, and is not within the control of the court below, either actually by being in custody, or constructively by being out on bail."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.