Jones v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1970
21 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 Farmers' Seed & Gin Co. v. Brooks · E. L. Witt & Sons v. Stith · Lehmberg v. Biberstein · Patterson Produce Co. v. Tombs · Norvell v. Stovall
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ * * * Their suit is to cancel the deeds and leases and for-general relief both in law and equity. The cancellation of such instruments by a court of competent jurisdiction would have the legal effect to remove the cloud and incumbrance from the title to their lands * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wynn · Dixon v. Alford““Lands. — Suits for the recovery of lands or damages thereto, or to remove incumbrances upon ■ the title to land, or to quiet the title to land, or to prevent or stay waste on lands, must be brought in the county in which the land, or a part thereof, may lie.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Latham v. Miller · Wynn v. State
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.