847 So. 2d 815 - Mabus v. Mabus’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 859 So. 2d 1006 - Johnson v. Gray (2003), 884 So. 2d 747 - Mabus v. St. James Episcopal Church (2004)
69 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Troxel v. Granville · 437 So. 2d 1003 - Albright v. Albright · 689 So. 2d 770 - Bredemeier v. Jackson · 824 So. 2d 583 - Hensarling v. Hensarling
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that a substantial change in circumstances has transpired since issuance of the custody decree; (2) that this change adversely affects the child's welfare; and (3) that the child's best interests mandate a change of custody.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“The principle that there must be a material change of circumstances which adversely affects a child's welfare before a custody decree may be modified only applies between parents of the child. The correct application of the law as between grandparents (also other persons) and parents is stated in Rodgers v. Rodgers, [ 274 So.2d 671 (Miss.1973)], viz, the parent is entitled to custody of the child unless he/she has abandoned the child or is unfit to have custody, keeping in mind the best interest of the child. Thomas v. Purvis, 384 So.2d at 610, 612-13 (Miss.1980).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schonewitz v. Pack
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.