Stack v. Stack’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably T.L.D. v. C.G. (2002), Carr v. Broyles (1994)
81 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 Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Shillitani v. United States · Bloom v. Illinois · Young v. United States Ex Rel. Vuitton Et Fils S. A. · Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hether a party is in contempt of court is a determination committed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and, absent an abuse of that discretion or unless the judgment of the trial court is unsupported by the evidence so as to be plainly and palpably wrong, this court will affirm.”
33 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.