commitment for contempt
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 20 U.S. 38 - Kearney · 1822Most cited · 252 citing opinions
when a Court commits a party for a contempt, their adjudication is a conviction, and their commitment, in consequence is execution... no Court can discharge, on bail, a person that is in execution by the judgment of any other Court.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “commitment for contempt” — 250 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.