Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crowl v. Berryhill · Cowart v. White · Francies v. Francies · MacIntosh v. MacIntosh · Meyer v. Wolvos
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a person is in contempt of a court order is a matter left to the trial court's discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“indirect contempt is the willful disobedience of any lawfully entered court order of which the offender has notice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A party may not be held in contempt for failing to comply with an ambiguous or indefinite order.”
2 later decisions 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.