Newell v. Hinton’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 564 So. 2d 839 - Cumberland v. Cumberland (1990), 666 So. 2d 493 - Varner v. Varner (1995)
113 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 444 So. 2d 358 - Brown v. Credit Center, Inc. · 418 So. 2d 764 - McKee v. McKee · Union Planters National Leasing, Inc. v. Woods · Short v. Columbus Rubber and Gasket Co. · Smith v. Sanders
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidentiary matters are viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“significant probative evidence demonstrating the existence of a triable issue of fact.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even when there has been established a prima facie case of contempt, the defendant may avoid judgment of contempt by establishing that he is without present ability to discharge his obligation. If the contemnor raises this as a defense, he has the burden of proving his inability to pay, and such showing must be made with particularity and not in general terms. There are other defenses as well. For example, the defendant may show that he was not guilty of willful or deliberate violation of the prior judgment or a decree. The burden of the defendant in raising this defense, however, is not nearly as great as the defendant who claims he is without ability to pay. Consequently, it is appropriate that this defense be viewed against the “extremely lenient view this Court and the courts of this state have taken of contempt proceedings in general.” Furthermore, a contemnor also has available to him the traditional notion of “clean hands” as a defense. Vagueness or the lack of specificity of the decree gives the contemnor another avenue for defense as well.”
3 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.