Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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

1. ““Our scope of review in domestic relations matters is limited by our familiar substantial evidence/manifest error rule.” Clark v. Clark, 754 So.2d 450, 458 [ (¶ 48) ] (Miss.1999) (citation omitted). “The equitable distribution of marital assets is committed to the discretion of the chancellor, whose findings will not be disturbed ... unless the chancellor was manifestly wrong, clearly erroneous or an erroneous legal standard was applied.” Arthur v. Arthur, 691 So.2d 997, 1003 (Miss.1997) (citation omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 54 So. 3d 233 - Lewis v. Lewis

2. “This Court reviews a trial court’s decision about whether to impose sanctions for discovery abuses under an abuse-of-discretion standard. “The provisions for imposing sanctions are designed to give trial courts great latitude.” We will affirm a trial court’s decision unless we have a “definite and firm conviction that the court below committed a clear error of judgment in the conclusion it reached upon [the] weighing of relevant factors.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 37 So. 3d 87 - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Jones

3. “When a party attempts to thwart such a search, the courts are obligated to ensure that such efforts are not only cut short, but that the penalty will be sufficiently severe to dissuade others from following suit.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 11 So. 3d 107 - MISS. COM'N ON JUD. PERF. v. Osborne