anticipatory contempt
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 339 U.S. 323 - United States v. Bryan · 1950Most cited · 1,610 citing opinions
There is, in our jurisprudence, no doctrine of 'anticipatory contempt.' The offense of contempt of Congress matures only when the witness is called to appear before the committee to answer questions or produce documents and wilfully fails to do so. Until that moment he has committed no crime.
How often courts cite the case defining “anticipatory contempt”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “anticipatory contempt” — 1,594 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.