Coleman v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2013
13 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Thomas v. Thomas · Openshaw v. Openshaw · Larsen v. Larsen · De Yonge v. De Yonge · Bates v. Bates
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An order to show cause is an order from the court, directed to the defendant to appear and show cause why he should not be held in contempt for willfully disobeying the previous order of the court. While it is true that an order to show cause will not issue except upon an affidavit that a party has violated or disobeyed the court's orders, once issued, the burden is on the defendant to present evidence with respect to the three [contempt] elements....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ability to pay is a matter of defense and the burden of proof is upon the [sane-tioned individual] in the contempt proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.