Chaffin v. Chaffin’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2009
17 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 Brabham v. Brabham · Cone v. Inter County Telephone Telegraph Co. · Humber v. Humber · Russell v. Russell · 297 So. 2d 900 - Wires v. Wires
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Robert Bland] admitted that he had had extramarital sexual affairs with two women while he had been married to [Jacklyn] so [Jacklyn's] charge that he committed adultery is sustained by the evidence and a divorce should be granted on the ground of habitual, cruel and inhuman treatment. (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This Court will not reverse a chancellor's decree of divorce unless it is manifestly wrong as to law or fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We take complainant's testimony at its best, as suggested in Burnett v. Burnett, 271 So.2d 90 (Miss. 1972), and find that it does establish the grounds set out in the complaint.”
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.