Sanders v. Shephard

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that conditional, renewable sanction imprisoning father until he produced his missing daughter was coercive rather than punitive where father could \win his release at any time by complying with the order of the court\
• holding that conditional, renewable sanction imprisoning father until he produced his missing daughter was coercive rather than punitive where father could \win his release at any time by complying with the order of the court\
• holding that conditional, renewable sanction imprisoning father until he produced his missing daughter was coercive rather than punitive where father could “win his release at any time by complying with the order of the court”
• affirming denial of motion to vacate order of contempt based on defendant's failure to produce his daughter or disclose her whereabouts and including as factor to be considered the significance of the ends to be achieved by the underlying order
• “Vital to the administration of justice is the inherent power of courts to compel compliance with their orders.”
• “There was sufficient evidence from which the circuit judge could find that the sanction continued to have a coercive effect.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Felzak v. Hruby
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2007-09-20· cited 88×
• People v. Stephens
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-10-26· cited 33×
• Ficken v. Alton & Southern Railway Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1997-09-19· cited 22×
• In Re Estate of Hayden
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2005-10-20· cited 15×
• Anderson Dundee 53, L.L.C. v. Terzakis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2005-12-02· cited 15×
• People v. Hammond
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2011-12-01· cited 15×
• Door Properties, LLC v. Nahlawi
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2023-06-06· cited 7×
• Anyanwu v. Anyanwu
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2001-04-12· cited 5×
• People ex rel. Madigan v. Cochonour
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2005-10-20· cited 1×
• Anderson Dundee 53 L.L.C. v. Terzakis Supplemental Opinion
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2005-12-02
• B.L. v. A.D.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2018-01-05
• In re Marriage of Harnack
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2025-06-24

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Shillitani v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 1,344×
• Jackson v. Indiana
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-07· cited 1,284×
• Hicks Ex Rel. Feiock v. Feiock
  Supreme Court· 1988-04-27· cited 861×
• In Re the Personal Restraint of King
  Washington Supreme Court· 1988-06-23· cited 122×
• Morris Simkin v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1983-08-08· cited 90×
• City of Elmhurst v. Kegerreis
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1945-11-21· cited 86×
• In Re Grand Jury Investigation. Appeal of Joseph Braun, Witness
  Third Circuit· 1979-06-06· cited 77×
• Tscherim Soobzokov v. Cbs, Inc., Quadrangle/new York Times Book Co., Inc., and Howard Blum, Anthony J. Devito
  Second Circuit· 1981-02-09· cited 57×
• United States v. Donald Dien
  Second Circuit· 1979-05-02· cited 43×
• County of Cook v. Lloyd A. Fry Roofing Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1974-11-18· cited 40×
• Howard A. Lambert v. State of Montana
  Ninth Circuit· 1976-10-26· cited 35×
• Catena v. Seidl
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1975-08-19· cited 35×
• In the Matter of John Crededio, a Witness Before the Special December, 1983 Grand Jury
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-04-03· cited 28×
• Sanders v. Shephard
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-06-22· cited 28×
• In the Matter of Milton Parrish. United States of America v. Milton Parrish
  Second Circuit· 1986-01-21· cited 20×
• In the Matter of John Dickinson, a Potential Witness Before the Grand Jury. John Dickinson v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1985-05-28· cited 18×
• Morgan v. Foretich
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1989-09-25· cited 13×
• Sanders v. Shephard
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-02-10· cited 9×
• Jamaica Inn, Inc. v. Daley
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1978-10-06· cited 5×
• People v. Shephard
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-06-15· cited 3×