State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably O.M. v. State (1991), 672 So. 2d 1319 - Dobyne v. State (1994)
67 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 re Oliver · Cooke v. United States · Ex parte Robinson · In re Grand Jury Investigation · 501 So. 2d 1136 - City of Dothan v. Holloway
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Civil contempt seeks to compel or coerce compliance with orders of the court, while a criminal contempt is one in which the purpose of the proceeding is to impose punishment for disobedience of orders of the court.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ex Parte Parcus · Ex Parte J.R.W.“"Direct contempts are those committed in the judge's presence, where all of the essential elements of the contempt are under the eye of the court, and are actually observed by the court. In a direct contempt case, the judge can summarily and instantaneously find the person to be in contempt. "If some of the essential elements of contempt are not personally observed by the judge, the contempt is indirect.... An indirect contempt is committed outside the presence of the court and is characterized by the act of disobeying the court's orders." 550 So.2d at 1072 . (Citations omitted.) See Rule 33.1, Ala.R.Cr.P., using the terms "direct" and "constructive." Because Jack Parcus's alleged contempt is characterized by a defiance of the court's orders and occurred outside the presence of the court, his contempt was indirect or constructive.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ex Parte Parcus · Garmon v. State“[E]ven if a court has jurisdiction of the person and of the crime, an accusation made in the manner prescribed by law is a prerequisite to the court's power to exercise its jurisdiction.”
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.