70 Wash. 2d 120 - State v. Caffrey’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2000
20 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 Green v. United States · 52 Wash. 2d 84 - Keller v. Keller · 55 Wash. 2d 576 - State v. Estill · State v. Zioncheck · Keyes v. United States
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]unishment for contempt of court is within the sound discretion of the judge so ruling. Unless there is abuse of a trial court's exercise of discretion, it will not be disturbed on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Both the common law and the general statute [RCW 7.20] authorize[d] summary punishment if contempt [wa]s committed in the presence of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“inherent power to punish for contempt derived from the constitutional origin of the court.”
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.