8 Ohio App. 3d 111 - Schrader v. Huff’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 28 Ohio App. 3d 6 - In Re Carroll (1985), 85 Ohio App. 3d 50 - Morford v. Morford (1993)
39 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 Brown v. Executive 200, Inc. · 108 Ohio St. 239 - Walls v. Mitchell · Holloway v. Brown · 52 Ohio App. 2d 116 - City of Akron v. Budiani
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'character and purpose of the punishment. * * * Punishment is remedial or coercive and for the benefit of the complainant in civil contempt. Prison sentences are conditional. The contemnor is said to carry the keys of his prison in his own pocket, * * * since he will be freed if he agrees to do as ordered. Criminal contempt, on the other hand, is usually characterized by an unconditional prison sentence. Such imprisonment operates not as a remedy coercive in its nature but as a punishment for the completed act of disobedience, and to vindicate the authority of the law and the court. * * * Therefore, to determine if the sanctions in [a cause] were criminal or civil in nature, it is necessary to determine the purpose behind each sanction: was it to coerce the appellees to obey the [court order], or was it to punish them for past violations?'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(A) Disobedience of, or resistance to, a lawful writ, process, order, rule, judgment, or command of a court or officer.”
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.