Watson v. Watson

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing chancery court’s equal distribution of marital assets when husband began an affair, abandoned the marriage, and moved in with his paramour, all of which destroyed the marriage
• In an irreconcilable-differences divorce, a chancellor was found in error for dividing assets equally in property settlement and not taking into consideration the husband's long-term adulterous conduct that broke up the marriage.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. J.P.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-11-18· cited 72×
• Bluewater Logistics, LLC v. Williford
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-01-27· cited 64×
• Yelverton v. Yelverton
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-07-26· cited 53×
• Rhodes v. Rhodes
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-01-11· cited 48×
• Phillips v. Phillips
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2010-04-06· cited 26×
• Paul v. Lacoste v. Laura R. Lacoste
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2016-07-19· cited 18×
• Rodriguez v. Rodriguez
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2009-01-20· cited 14×
• Lewis v. Lewis
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-02-03· cited 11×
• Dunn v. Dunn
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2005-09-13· cited 9×
• Jeffrey Keefe Seale, Sr. v. Cherie Nanez Seale
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2014-11-18· cited 7×
• Jones v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-04-30· cited 5×
• Rush v. Rush
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2005-08-09· cited 3×
• Fogarty v. Fogarty
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-02-28· cited 2×
• Gary C. Marter v. Celeste G. Marter
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2015-05-12· cited 2×
• James B. Yelverton v. Rhonda H. Yelverton
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-04-29
• Drake L. Lewis v. Tonia D. Lewis
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-07-11
• Bluewater Logistics, LLC v. James Stewart Williford, Jr.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-01-07
• Herman Scott v. Lillie Scott
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2016-12-13
• Terry Johnson v. Teresa Jenkins Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2019-08-13
• Terry Lynn Alves-Hunter v. Seth Hunter
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2022-11-08

Cites

27 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×
• Nichols v. Tedder
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-06-28· cited 194×
• Newsom v. Newsom
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 178×
• Tilley v. Tilley
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-12-10· cited 142×
• Jay Myoung Yoon v. Sunsook Yoon
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-06-21· cited 133×
• Smith v. Smith
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1993-02-18· cited 129×
• Sandlin v. Sandlin
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-03-27· cited 122×
• Creekmore v. Creekmore
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-23· cited 104×
• LaRue v. LaRue
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-05-27· cited 103×
• Magee v. Magee
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-09-28· cited 101×
• Singley v. Singley
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-10-17· cited 78×
• McNally v. McNally
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-12-09· cited 73×
• Henderson v. Henderson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-04-13· cited 71×
• Holleman v. Holleman
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-05-18· cited 57×
• Cherry v. Cherry
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-31· cited 55×
• May v. May
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2003-12-04· cited 47×
• Wood v. Wood
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-10-01· cited 44×
• Miss. Dept. of Human Services v. Shelby
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-12-20· cited 39×