Thorne v. Thorne’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1988
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Roll and Scholl · Varney v. Lucerne-In-Maine Village Corp. · Attorney Grievance Commission v. Tyrrell · Eastgate Associates v. Apper · Rutherford v. Katzenberger
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.
“In all civil contempt proceedings, any order imposing a penalty upon the defendant must contain a purging provision with which the defendant has the ability to comply— The “choice” must be the defendant’s “as to whether [he can] comply.” ****** Consequently, with regard to civil contempt proceedings based upon the defendant’s failure to comply with a decree ordering support payments, “imprisonment may be avoided by showing that one has neither the money nor the ability to pay.” ... Moreover, the issue is not the ability to pay at the time the payments were originally ordered; instead, the issue is his present ability to pay. (citations omitted).”
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.