Premeaux v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 579 So. 2d 543 - Caldwell v. Caldwell (1991), 708 So. 2d 55 - Mizell v. Mizell (1998)
44 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 952 - Gavin v. State · 490 So. 2d 866 - Cox v. Moulds · 559 So. 2d 1014 - Thurman v. Thurman · Common Cause of Mississippi v. Smith · 551 So. 2d 107 - Hinds Cty. Bd. of Sup'rs v. Common Cause
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The factual findings of the chancery court in a civil contempt case are affirmed unless manifest error is present and apparent.”
10 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.