Weeks v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2011
7 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 Merchants Fertilizer & Phosphate Co. v. Standard Cotton Gin · Fortenberry v. Fortenberry · In Re Estate of Prine · 453 So. 2d 684 - Edwards v. James
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.
“[t]he parties should be afforded a full, complete hearing at which the parties have an opportunity to call witnesses in their behalf and be heard by themselves or counsel. Fortenberry v. Fortenberry, 338 So.2d 806 (Miss.1976). If a full and complete hearing is not allowed by refusing the defendant his opportunity to present evidence, then the defendant is thereby deprived of due process. Id.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the defendant offered to prove, by his own testimony and the testimony of other witnesses, that he had, indeed, paid his ex-wife the money she claimed he had not paid for the nonpayment of which he was held in contempt. However, the Chancellor shut off defendant's proof, saying that he was satisfied that the defendant was in contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“because the record discloses that there were important, material, and pertinent facts and available witnesses which should have been heard.”
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.