829 So. 2d 712 - Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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

1. “`the judgment must be complete within itself . . . leaving open no matter or description or designation out of which contention may arise as to meaning.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. David H. Vincent v. Joan Hankins Rickman · 853 So. 2d 826 - Westerburg v. Westerburg

2. “The purpose of the Rule is to obtain a detailed explanation of a bench trial result when requested. It does not matter that the court dictated one in open court for the court reporter to transcribe, or dictated one while in chambers for a secretary to type. It is the content that matters, not the place at which the judge is sitting when expressing his reasoning. Davis v. Dooley, 829 So.2d 712, 715 (Miss. Ct.App.2002). Thus, the objection to the findings that they had to be contained in a writing separate from the transcript was rejected. Id. at 715-16 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 851 So. 2d 408 - Mississippi Dept. of Transp. v. Trosclair

3. “all obligations owed by the parties, except three debts set forth in the opinion of the Court, i.e., the debts to the United States for goods obtained by the [wife] at the base exchange and the shipping expense overage, respectively and the deficiency to GMAC.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 935 So. 2d 407 - Bounds v. Bounds