Mellor v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2013
8 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 68 Cal. 2d 137 - In re Berry · Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. v. Superior Court · 14 Utah 2d 118 - Powers v. Taylor · Thomas v. Thomas · Whillock v. Whillock
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is fundamental that disobedience of an order of court which was issued without jurisdiction cannot be the basis of a finding and judgment for contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. M.F. v. J.F.“[Wle are aware of no provision authorizing an additional penalty of attorney's fees.”
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.