511 So. 2d 492 - Ross v. Brasell’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2018
12 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 473 So. 2d 174 - Bryant v. Cameron · 483 So. 2d 318 - Spain v. Holland · 452 So. 2d 837 - Enlargement of Yazoo City v. Yazoo City · 463 So. 2d 1094 - Dungan v. Dick Moore, Inc. · Carbins v. State
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a chancellor does not make explicit findings, [appellate courts] will assume that all disputed issues were resolved in favor of the appellees.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the will is unambiguous and the intent of the testator can be discerned from the face of the document, the admission of such evidence [parol evidence] is improper. Ross v. Brasell, 511 So.2d 492, 494 (Miss. 1987).”
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.