483 So. 2d 371 - Cook v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2019
22 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 In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Bloom v. Illinois · Mayberry v. Pennsylvania · Grace v. State · Brannon v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A criminal contempt is conduct that is directed against the dignity and authority of the court, or a judge acting judicially. It arises from an act obstructing the administration of justice which tends to bring the court into disrepute or disrespect. State v. Wingo, 221 Miss. 542 , 73 So.2d 107 (1954); see also Gadson v. Gadson, 434 So.2d 1345 , 1349 (1983). The essence of the offense is that the defendant wilfully, maliciously and contumaciously refused to comply with a decree of the court. Langford v. Langford, 253 Miss. 483 , 485, 176 So.2d 266 , 267 (1965).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hentz v. State · Purvis v. Purvis“Cases of direct contempt, where a personal attack has been made on the court necessitating an instantaneous response, may be dealt with by the judge offended. In other criminal contempt cases, particularly those in which the allegedly contemptuous actions were committed outside the presence of the court and where the trial judge has substantial personal involvement in the prosecution, the accused contemnor must be tried by another judge. Mayberry v. Pennsylvania, 400 U.S. 455, 465-66 , 91 S.Ct. 499, 504-05 , 27 L.Ed.2d 532, 540 (1971); In re Interest of Holmes, 355 So.2d 677 , 678 fn. 2 (Miss. 1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Varvaris v. State“[s]uch a proceeding falls far short of minimum due process requirements... .”
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.