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Lowery v. Lowery’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2018

13 state decisions

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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 612 So. 2d 359 - Century 21 Deep South Prop., Ltd. v. Corson · Browning Interests v. Allison · Tricon Metals & Services, Inc. v. Topp · Incident Aboard D/b Ocean King Cities Service Company v. Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company · 644 So. 2d 1218 - Ivy v. Harrington

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “has technically complied with the mandates of Rule 52 where it makes general findings of fact and conclusions of law although requested by a party to make specific findings.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Effect. In all actions tried upon the facts without a jury the court may, and shall upon the request of any party to the suit or when required by these rules, find the facts specially and state separately its conclusions of law thereon and judgment shall be entered accordingly.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “In all actions where it is required or requested, pursuant to M.R.C.P. 52, the Chancellor shall find the facts specially and state separately his conclusions of law thereon. The request must be made either in writing, filed among the papers in the action, or dictated to the Court Reporter for record and called to the attention of the Chancellor.”
    1 later decision 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.