240 So. 2d 628 - Savell v. Savell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “such as wilful failure to support, verbal abuse, neglect, and the like which, if taken alone will not constitute cruelty, but when taken together will manifest a course of conduct as a whole which may amount to cruelty.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rakestraw v. Rakestraw · 823 So. 2d 568 - Mitchell v. Mitchell

2. “"The next assignment of error relates to the exclusive use of the home and farm by the wife. The parties have been married since 1945. The appellee is a middle-aged woman with no particular specialty for earning a living though she is presently employed, and moreover, she was not awarded any means of support other than the use and occupancy of the land. Under these circumstances we cannot state that the chancellor was manifestly wrong in this award." Savell v. Savell, 240 So.2d 628, 630 (Miss. 1970).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Savell v. Savell

3. “Habitual cruel and inhuman treatment may consist of repeated acts of the same nature such as personal violence, or it may consist of a series of acts, some of the same nature and some of different natures, but which, when taken together, tend to cause pain and suffering on the part of the innocent spouse.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Goellner v. Goellner