Ex parte Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 1994 · most notably Terry (1888), Coons v. State (1922)
1 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Kearney · People Ex Rel. Hackley v. Kelly · Whittem v. State · Pitt v. . Davison · Crook v. People
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A contempt of court is either direct or constructive [indirect].... A direct contempt is an open insult, in the face of the court, to the person of the judges while presiding, or a resistance to its powers in their presence. A constructive [indirect] contempt is an act done, not in the presence of the court, but at a distance, which resists their authority, as disobedience to process, or an order of the court, such as tends in its operation to obstruct, interrupt, prevent or embarrass the administration of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ The grounds of a constructive contempt should be stated by affidavit, by the return of some officer, or in some way made known to the court prima fade, by witnesses, or otherwise, so that they may be made a part of the record; and this should be done before a rule or writ is granted against the alleged offender.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Henthorn“... may be punished instantly by arrest and fine or imprisonment, upon no farther proof or examination than what is known to the judges by their senses of seeing, hearing, etc... . .”
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.