Dennis Theriot’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably In the Matter of Kelly Dennis v. Kelly Dennis and Gulf South Title Corporation, Shields
3 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Reynolds v. Sims · Thornburg v. Gingles · Florida v. Tyvessel Tyvorus White
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of showing that the findings of a district court are clearly erroneous is heavier if credibility of witnesses is a factor in the district court's determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the evidence can support findings either way, a choice by the trial judge between two permissible views of the weight of the evidence is not clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“have disfavored the practice of taking the deposition of a party's attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.