McCrary v. McCrary’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
October 1997
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte Slavin · Abel v. Tisdale · Plummer v. Superior Court · Maroney v. Tannehill · Winn v. Winn
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We find the contempt power above conferred does not contravene the constitutional interdiction of imprisonment for debt in that contempt lies not for debts incurred, but is limited to enforcement against the offending party who has willfully disobeyed an order of the court. " 723 P.2d at 271 . (Emphasis in original)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lepak v. McClain“"Any order for the payment of money as part of a division of spousal property pursuant to a divorce or separate maintenance action, if willfully disobeyed, may be enforced as an indirect contempt of court."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lepak v. McClain
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.