698 So. 2d 187 - Ex Parte Ivey’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2018
8 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 United States v. Dixon · Bloom v. Illinois · State v. Thomas · Lincoln Mills v. Textile Workers Union, CIO, Local No. 230+ · 172 So. 2d 43 - Ex Parte Abercrombie
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[U]nder the Alabama Criminal Code, [criminal] contempt is only an 'offense,' § 13A-1-2(1), [Ala. Code 1975,] not a 'crime,' § 13A-1-2(5)[, Ala. Code 1975 ]. The maximum sentence the circuit court can impose for criminal contempt is 5 days in jail and a $100 fine. Ala. Code 1975, § 12-11-30(5). An offense that may be punished only for 30 or fewer days in jail is a 'violation,' § 13A-1-2(2). Only misdemeanors and felonies (not violations) are crimes. § 13A-1-2(5). Therefore, under our statutes, criminal contempt is a violation, and is merely an offense, not a crime."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ingram v. Allred · L.S. v. A.S.
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.