682 So. 2d 374 - Touchstone v. Touchstone’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 859 So. 2d 1006 - Johnson v. Gray (2003), 829 So. 2d 29 - Kolberg v. State (2002)
43 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 637 So. 2d 850 - Chamblee v. Chamblee · 557 So. 2d 511 - Newsom v. Newsom · Cooper v. Crabb · Sellers v. Sellers · 453 So. 2d 1294 - Tucker v. Tucker
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the chancellor must have found that `the overall circumstances in which a child lives have materially changed and are likely to remain materially changed for the foreseeable future and, of course, that such a change adversely impacts the child.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"this Court will not reverse a Chancery Court's factual findings, be they of ultimate fact or of evidentiary fact, where there is substantial evidence in the record supporting these findings of fact." Smith v. Jones, 654 So.2d 480, 485 (Miss.1995)( quoting Cooper v. Crabb, 587 So.2d 236 , 239 (Miss.1991)). Furthermore, the chancellor's findings will not be disturbed when supported by substantial evidence unless the chancellor abused his discretion, was manifestly wrong or clearly erroneous or applied an erroneous legal standard. Williams v. Williams, 656 So.2d 325, 330 (Miss. 1995); Smith, 654 So.2d at 485 ; Chamblee v. Chamblee, 637 So.2d 850, 860 (Miss.1994). * * * * There must be sufficient evidence in the record supporting the chancellor's opinion for this Court to say that the chancellor has not abused his discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brocato v. Brocato“Although [the child] has been subjected to some gross unpleasantries between his parents, the record does not remotely suggest that these episodes are characteristic of the overall circumstances in which he lives. Whether these circumstances are likely to remain unchanged in the foreseeable future appears to be entirely dependent upon his parents' ability to control their hostilities toward each other when with the child. The chancellor found that [the child] had not been so adversely affected by his parents' behavior that a change in custody would be in his best interests. The evidence in the record is more a reflection of the parties' animosities toward each other than of either's fitness as parents. Unfortunately, it appears that the child has become a pawn in his parents' games.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lipsey v. Lipsey
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