Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 12731 · 10 U.S.C. § 1441 · 10 U.S.C. § 1448 · 10 U.S.C. § 1450 · 10 U.S.C. § 1451 · 10 U.S.C. § 1452 · 5 U.S.C. § 8341
Relies on 639 So. 2d 909 - Hemsley v. Hemsley · 537 So. 2d 435 - Cheatham v. Cheatham · R.K. v. J.K. · 651 So. 2d 513 - Creekmore v. Creekmore · 891 So. 2d 203 - West v. West
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mississippi law favors settling disputes by agreements. In re Dissolution of the Marriage of De St. Germain, 977 So.2d 412, 420 (¶ 23) (Miss.Ct.App.2008). Absent fraud or overreaching, parties are afforded wide latitude in entering property settlement agreements. Steiner v. Steiner, 788 So.2d 771, 776 (¶ 17) (Miss.2001). Property settlement agreements are contractual obligations. West v. West, 891 So.2d 203, 210 (¶ 3) (Miss.2004) (citation omitted). When the par ties have reached [an] agreement and the chancery court has approved it, [the appellate court] ought to enforce it and take a dim view of efforts to modify it, as we ordinarily do when persons seek relief from their improvident contracts. Id. at 211 (¶ 15) (citation omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“parties are afforded wide latitude in entering property settlement agreements.”
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.