Morrow v. Morrow’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 637 So. 2d 850 - Chamblee v. Chamblee (1994), 622 So. 2d 1226 - Crow v. Crow (1993)
37 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 437 So. 2d 1003 - Albright v. Albright · 515 So. 2d 1183 - Mullins v. Ratcliff · 557 So. 2d 511 - Newsom v. Newsom · 453 So. 2d 1294 - Tucker v. Tucker · 537 So. 2d 443 - Burkett v. Burkett
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only parental behavior that poses a clear danger to the child's mental or emotional health can justify a custody change.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n extramarital relationship is not, per se, an adverse circumstance. Ballard [ v. Ballard ], 434 So.2d [1357] at 1360 [Miss. 1983] defined the inquiry as ensuring against harm to the child, noting parenthetically, "whether such [parental] behavior is immoral or not. . . ." See also Kavanaugh v. Carraway, 435 So.2d 697 (Miss. 1983).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where evidence conflicts, ... this Court typically defers to the chancellor as fact-finder.”
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.