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due process in contempt proceedings

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 267 U.S. 517 - Cooke v. United States · 1925Most cited · 1,683 citing opinions

Due process of law, therefore, in the prosecution of contempt, except of that committed in open court, requires that the accused should be advised of the charges and have a reasonable opportunity to meet them by way of defense or explanation.

How often courts cite the case defining “due process in contempt proceedings”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “due process in contempt proceedings” — 1,662 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.