Kenneth Mercer, Tom Tioran, David Tootle, Edward Koraski, Pre-Trial Detainees in the Chatham County Jail, Indv. and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2020
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · In re Oliver
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defendant is allowed to show either that he did not violate the court order or that he was excused from complying. Typically, a defendant will argue that he should not be held in contempt because changed circumstances would make strict enforcement of the order unjust. In such a case, the defendant should move the court to modify the order, and the hearing on the show-cause order would take on the appearance of a hearing on a motion to modify an injunction. If the court determines that the order should be modified and that the defendant’s conduct did not violate the order as modified, then ordinarily it would be unjust to hold the defendant in contempt. If, however, the court concludes that the order should not be modified and that the defendant did not comply with the order, then the court may hold him in contempt and impose sanctions designed to ensure compliance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]ivil contempt proceeding[§ are] brought to enforce a court order that requires [a party] to act in some defined manner.”
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.