Ex parte Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 2018
3 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 Ex Parte Davis · Ex Parte Herring · Ex Parte Hart · Ex Parte Sauser · Ex Parte Garza
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that an order finding a person in contempt but suspending punishment on condition of compliance with the court’s order, provides no authority in itself for arrest and confinement. A subsequent hearing to determine breach of the condition and a subsequent unconditional commitment is necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Crocker
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.