644 So. 2d 1211 - Setser v. Piazza’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 666 So. 2d 493 - Varner v. Varner (1995), 708 So. 2d 44 - Par Industries, Inc. v. Target Container Co. (1998)
35 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 Long v. Calhoun · 418 So. 2d 764 - McKee v. McKee · Forsdick v. Turgeon · Nunnally v. Nunnally · 564 So. 2d 839 - Cumberland v. Cumberland
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the questions asked or the evidence presented at trial are relevant to the issues actually raised in the pleadings, trial by implied consent will not be found.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the court denies a spouse's petition for contempt, no award of attorneys fees is warranted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Emancipation of a child has been defined by this Court as freeing the child `from the care, custody, control, and services of its parents; the relinquishment of parental control, conferring on the child the right to its own earnings and terminating the parent's legal obligation to support it.' Caldwell v. Caldwell, 579 So.2d 543, 549 (Miss. 1991). A party is not responsible for the support of a child once the child is emancipated, either by reaching majority age or otherwise.”
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.