Grimes v. Grimes’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1983
6 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 Wilson v. Peacock
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is a proceeding in which the ap-pellee, the husband, was granted a divorce from the appellant, his wife. When the appellee rested his case the appellant, after introducing several witnesses, offered to testify herself, but on objection by counsel for the appellee the Court refused to permit her to do so. This is the only ruling of the Court below which justifies a reversal of its decree. “The rule excluding witnesses from the courtroom had been invoked but the appellant remained in the courtroom and introduced several witnesses who testified in her behalf before offering to testify herself. This did not justify the court’s refusal to permit her to testify, for the reason that before introducing her witnesses she was not 'given the alternative of testifying first or leaving the courtroom, whichever she chose’, as required by Wilson v. Peacock, 111 Miss. 116 , 71 So. 296 .” (Emphasis added.)”
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.