10 Smith & H. 237 - Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1962
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * These grounds of demurrer go to the construction of the will and the document offered as a codicil, and are not matters for the probate court. The demurrer in these particulars accordingly should have been overruled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hamilton v. McKinney““ ‘I also wish to state here that you or your heirs will share equally with my other children in my estate. ’ ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.