White v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Watkins v. Nelson (2000), McDermott v. Dougherty (2005)
38 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 467 So. 2d 657 - Bell v. City of Bay St. Louis · 533 So. 2d 418 - Woodward v. State · 557 So. 2d 511 - Newsom v. Newsom · Bezio v. Patenaude · 431 So. 2d 1139 - Cheek v. Ricker
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[v]isitation and restrictions placed upon it are within the discretion of the chancery court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is presumed that the best interests of the child will be preserved by it remaining with its parents or parent. In order to overcome this presumption there must be a clear showing that the parent has (1) abandoned the child, or (2) the conduct of the parent is so immoral {as} to be detrimental to the child, or (3) the parent is unfit mentally or otherwise to have the custody of his or her child. Rodgers v. Rodgers, 274 So.2d 671 , 672 (Miss. 1973) cited with approval in White v. Thompson, 569 So.2d 1181 , 1184 (Miss. 1990).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McKee v. Flynt · Ethredge v. Yawn“Though the predominant issue in this case seems to have been [the mother's] lesbian relationship, and the chancellor may have relied almost entirely on this, we find that a review of the entire record and the circumstances present, including the children's health and supervision and the atmosphere in which they were being brought up shows that the chancellor's decision that [the mother] was an unfit mother, morally and otherwise, was not against the overwhelming weight of the evidence.”
2 later decisions 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.