Parker v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Although the trial court’s order contains the term ‘criminal contempt,’ the distinction between criminal and civil contempt has been determined. The purpose of a finding of criminal contempt is to punish the- contemnor for disobeying an order of the court; a finding of civil contempt seeks to coerce compliance'with an order of the court. Norland v. Tanner, 563 So.2d 1055 (Ala. Civ.App.1990). “The ‘purge clause’ allowed [Joyce] control of her incarceration; therefore, no absolute sentence was imposed. While the trial court may have intended to punish [Joyce] for defiance of the original judgment of divorce, it clearly sought compliance with the January 15 [contempt] order. We conclude that the finding of contempt was civil in nature, although it had characteristics of both criminal and civil contempt. Lightsey v. Kensington Mortgage & Finance Corp., 294 Ala. 281 , 315 So.2d 431 (1975). Consequently, the award-of an attorney fee was not in error.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 215 So. 3d 1079 - Kent v. Herchenhan

2. “although it had characteristics of both criminal and civil contempt,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kizale v. Kizale

3. “clearly sought compliance with the [divorce judgment]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kizale v. Kizale