Roybal v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1993
14 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 State v. Reese · Eaton Ex Rel. Estate of Montgomery v. Cooke · Lindsey v. Martinez · State Ex Rel. Simpson v. Armijo · In Re Estate of Newman
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have consistently recognized the two types of contempt: “direct” — contumacious words spoken or acts committed in the presence of the court, and “indirect” or “constructive” contempt — similar misconduct, or some disobedient, scurrilous, or other defiant act engaged in out of the court’s presence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Diamond
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.