766 So. 2d 819 - Young v. Deaton’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 2009
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 666 So. 2d 493 - Varner v. Varner · 490 So. 2d 1201 - Grisham v. Hinton · Kennedy v. Kennedy · Cox v. Trustmark Nat. Bank · Christiansen v. Griffin
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A litigant must show something more than the fact that she prevailed in order to recover attorney's fees in most forms of litigation. Mississippi Rule of Civil Procedure 11 contemplates the award of fees in instances involving frivolous or bad-faith litigation, as does the Litigation Accountability Act of 1988, Section 11-55-5 of the Mississippi Code Annotated (Supp.1999).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there is case law for the proposition that attorney's fees may be awarded in conjunction with the successful prosecution of a contempt action”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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