contempt by publication
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 205 U.S. 454 - Thomas Patterson v. People of the State of Colorado Ex Rel Attorney General of the State of Colorado · 1907Most cited · 913 citing opinions
A publication likely to reach the eyes of a jury, declaring a witness in a pending cause a perjurer, would be none the less a contempt that it was true. It would tend to obstruct the administration of justice, because even a correct conclusion is not to be reached or helped in that way, if our system of trials is to be maintained.
How often courts cite the case defining “contempt by publication”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “contempt by publication” — 913 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.