Brooks v. Brooks

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming chancery court's failure to find the ground of habitual cruel and inhuman treatment where husband's complaint boiled down to the fact that wife was not congenial
• ability to pay attorneys' fees may be evaluated after the chancellor awards alimony and property to the parties upon remand
• chancellor did not make his own findings, rather adopted litigant’s findings and applied wrong legal standard
• husband could argue no more than that wife was not congenial toward him
• \The best that Robert can argue is that Jane was not congenial towards him.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

126 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Michael D.C. v. Wanda L.C.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-10-24· cited 455×
• Hensarling v. Hensarling
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-06-20· cited 154×
• Par Industries, Inc. v. Target Container Co.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-02-12· cited 143×
• Bluewater Logistics, LLC v. Williford
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-01-27· cited 64×
• Yelverton v. Yelverton
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-07-26· cited 53×
• Andrews v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1998-11-24· cited 52×
• Joel v. Joel
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-07-01· cited 49×
• City of Jackson v. Presley
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-07-29· cited 37×
• Mississippi Real Estate Com'n v. Anding
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-02-04· cited 35×
• Holden v. Frasher-Holden
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-09-05· cited 35×
• Mississippi Dept. of Transp. v. Johnson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-13· cited 31×
• Wilbourne v. Wilbourne
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-07-27· cited 30×
• In Re Estate of Grubbs
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-02-10· cited 29×
• Matthew Burnham v. Dana Burnham
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-11-12· cited 29×
• Hunt v. Coker
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-06-22· cited 26×
• Martin v. Lowery
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-10-13· cited 26×
• Rachel Smith v. David Smith
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2016-10-13· cited 26×
• Chesney v. Chesney
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-10-03· cited 25×
• Haney v. Haney
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-07-21· cited 23×
• East v. East
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2000-06-13· cited 23×

Cites

47 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ferguson v. Ferguson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-07-07· cited 745×
• Armstrong v. Armstrong
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-05-13· cited 417×
• Hemsley v. Hemsley
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-07-07· cited 413×
• McKee v. McKee
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-07-28· cited 352×
• Nichols v. Tedder
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-06-28· cited 194×
• Bell v. City of Bay St. Louis
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-04-10· cited 178×
• Cheatham v. Cheatham
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-12-21· cited 174×
• Tedford v. Dempsey
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-09-14· cited 168×
• Tilley v. Tilley
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-12-10· cited 142×
• Dillon v. Dillon
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-11-12· cited 126×
• Brabham v. Brabham
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1955-12-19· cited 119×
• Rice Researchers, Inc. v. Hiter
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-02· cited 118×
• LaRue v. LaRue
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-05-27· cited 103×
• Carr v. Carr
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-11-13· cited 96×
• Martin v. Martin
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-08-08· cited 90×
• McEachern v. McEachern
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-12· cited 88×
• Bank of Mississippi v. Hollingsworth
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-10-08· cited 88×
• Omnibank of Mantee v. United Southern Bank
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-07-29· cited 86×
• Hammett v. Woods
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-05-27· cited 84×
• Jones v. Jones
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-05· cited 82×