Ex Parte Browne’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2016
21 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 Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company · Bessette v. W. B. Conkey Co. · Cleveland v. Ward · Worden v. Searls
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power to punish for contempt is an inherent power of a court. It is an essential element of judicial independence and authority. 543 S.W.2d at 86 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Gorena
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.