652 So. 2d 1113 - Brooks v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 824 So. 2d 583 - Hensarling v. Hensarling (2002), 708 So. 2d 44 - Par Industries, Inc. v. Target Container Co. (1998)
92 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 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson · Armstrong v. Armstrong · 639 So. 2d 909 - Hemsley v. Hemsley · 418 So. 2d 764 - McKee v. McKee · Brabham v. Brabham
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the deference normally afforded a chancellor's findings of fact is lessened.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“unkindness, rudeness, or incompatibility.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hodge v. Hodge · Morris v. Morris“"A charge of adultery may be grounds for divorce upon a showing of either an infatuation for a particular person of the opposite sex or a generally adulterous nature on the part of the defendant." [ McAdory v. McAdory, 608 So.2d 695, 700 (Miss.1992).] There must be evidence of one or the other before a divorce may be granted on these grounds. Id. In [ Brooks v. Brooks, 652 So.2d 1113, 1118 (Miss.1995) ], this Court recited the proper evidentiary standard to be applied to the proof set forth by the complaining party, as articulated in [ Dillon v. Dillon, 498 So.2d 328, 330 (Miss. 1986) ]: In Mississippi one seeking a divorce on the grounds of adulterous activity must show by clear and convincing evidence both an adulterous inclination and a reasonable opportunity to satisfy that inclination. Owen v. Gerity, 422 So.2d 284, 287 (Miss.1982); Magee v. Magee, 320 So.2d 779, 783 (Miss.1975); Rodgers v. Rodgers, 274 So.2d 671, 673 (Miss.1973). Where the plaintiff relies on circumstantial evidence as proof for his allegations, he or she retains the burden of presenting satisfactory evidence sufficient to lead the trier of fact to a conclusion of guilt. Rodgers, 274 So.2d at 673 . However, such evidence need not prove the alleged acts beyond a reasonable doubt and the plaintiff is not required to present direct testimony as to the events complained of due to their secretive nature. Bunkley & Morse's Amis, Divorce & Separation in Mississippi, §§ 3.09(5)(1957). Nevertheless, the burden o”
4 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.