Jones v. Gibbs’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 1987 · most notably McKenzie v. Carte (1964), Grohn v. Marquardt (1972)
3 federal appellate · 30 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 Miller v. Hodges · Russell v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Boykin · 62 Tex. Civ. App. 560 - Burkitt v. Wynne · East v. Dugan
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In every suit against the estate of a decedent involving the title to real estate, the executor or administrator, if any, and the heirs shall be made parties defendant.””
5 later decisions 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.