Ensley v. Ensley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Where the primary purpose is to provide a remedy for an injured suitor and to coerce compliance with an order, the contempt is civil.”
• “If the contemnor is imprisoned for a specified unconditional period . . . , the purpose is punishment and thus the contempt is criminal.”
• noting the difference between civil and criminal contempt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

35 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Schmidt v. Schmidt
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-11· cited 84×
• American Medical Security Group, Inc. v. Parker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 74×
• Russo v. Manning
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-02-16· cited 74×
• Wilson v. Fenton
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-11-25· cited 42×
• Kenneth Lee Hopkins v. Robert Patrick Jarvis, Dekalb County, Georgia
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-06-23· cited 37×
• Alexander v. DeKalb County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-27· cited 35×
• Rhone v. Bolden
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-11-12· cited 31×
• Kaufmann v. Kaufmann
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-08· cited 29×
• Schiselman v. Trust Co. Bank
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-08· cited 21×
• McGahee v. Rogers
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-07-13· cited 19×
• Sommer v. Sommer
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1997-10-20· cited 17×
• Hughes v. Department of Human Resources
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-13· cited 17×
• Hopkins v. Hopkins
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-07-02· cited 14×
• Brown v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-14· cited 14×
• Warehouse Carpet Sales & Service, Inc. v. S.C.J. Associates, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-03-16· cited 13×
• Carey Canada, Inc. v. Hinely
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-11-20· cited 13×
• In re Siemon
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-11-21· cited 13×
• Thedieck v. Thedieck
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 12×
• Reece v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-23· cited 10×
• Chatfield v. Adkins-Chatfield
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 9×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Carlton v. Carlton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1871-07-15· cited 47×
• Davis v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1912-04-09· cited 47×
• Cobb v. Black
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1865-03-15· cited 38×
• Lewis v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1888-07-11· cited 30×
• Brown v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-06-22· cited 14×
• McCullough v. McCullough
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1952-03-10· cited 13×
• Beavers v. Beavers
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1918-10-17· cited 12×
• Heflinger v. Heflinger
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1931-06-12· cited 12×
• Horton v. Horton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-09-08· cited 8×
• Easley v. Easley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-01-06· cited 7×
• Mathews v. Mathews
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-06-23· cited 7×
• Edwards v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1968-04-05· cited 6×
• Bowen v. Bowen
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-05-31· cited 5×
• Brannon v. Brannon
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-11-06· cited 4×
• Fint v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-05-19· cited 3×

Other cases named Ensley v. Ensley

5 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Ensley v. Ensley
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-04-25· cited 21×
• Ensley v. Ensley
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1900-06-20· cited 21×
• Ensley v. Ensley
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2015-04-08
• Ensley v. Ensley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-02-24
• Ensley v. Ensley
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1958-06-05