Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 437 So. 2d 1003 - Albright v. Albright (1983), 537 So. 2d 435 - Cheatham v. Cheatham (1988)
30 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 Humber v. Humber · Russell v. Russell · Boswell v. Pope · Davis v. Davis · Price v. Price
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is only in rare cases that this Court will reverse a chancellor upon a disputed question of fact. But when the chancellor's decision in a divorce case appears to be manifestly wrong, this Court has not hesitated to reverse the decree of the chancellor. Ammons v. Ammons, 144 Miss. 314 , 109 So. 795 ; Russell v. Russell, 157 Miss. 425 , 128 So. 270 ; Long v. Long, 160 Miss. 492 , 135 So. 204 ; Price v. Price, 181 Miss. 539 , 179 So. 855 ; Stringer v. Stringer, 209 Miss. 326 , 46 So.2d 791 ; Chambers v. Chambers, 213 Miss. 71 , 56 So.2d 33 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In all cases where any child is of such tender age as to require the mother's care for its physical welfare it should be awarded to her custody, at least until it reaches that age and maturity where it can be equally well cared for by other persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.