Cook v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2012
6 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 471 So. 2d 1206 - Kergosien v. Kergosien · 618 So. 2d 108 - Gardner v. Gardner · 594 So. 2d 1173 - Massingill v. Massingill · 608 So. 2d 709 - Benson v. Benson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Giving a strict interpretation to [section] 93-5-2(2), the statute provides that the parties provide a written agreement and that the court finds that such provisions are adequate and sufficient. After the reading of the agreement into the record, the chancellor found that the agreement was reasonable and granted a divorce based on irreconcilable differences without a written consent agreement being executed and filed. Because the statutory requirements were not met in this case, the chancellor exceeded his statutory authority in awarding a divorce upon grounds of irreconcilable differences.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“No divorce shall be granted pursuant to this subsection until all matters involving custody and maintenance of any child of that marriage and property rights between the parties raised by the pleadings have been either adjudicated by the court or agreed upon by the parties and found to be adequate and sufficient by the court and included in the judgment of divorce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cassibry v. Cassibry
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.