State v. Hurst’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2024
19 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 Pell v. Procunier · West Valley City v. Majestic Investment Co. · Von Hake v. Thomas · United States v. Schiffer · 82 Wash. 2d 87 - State v. Mecca Twin Theater & Film Exchange, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, in order to prove contempt for failure to comply with a court order it must be shown that the person cited for contempt knew what was required, had the ability to comply, and intentionally failed or refused to do so.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“written findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect to each of the three substantive elements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[blecause she failed to marshal the evidence, we accept the challenged finding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.