Jones v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.2d 575 · 1944
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 1997 · most notably Federal Savings & Loan Insurance v. Quinn (1969), United States v. Kennedy (1954)
23 federal appellate · 3 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 Shepard v. Adams · Benjamin Harris v. William Hardeman · Landes v. Brant · Zegura v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ . . . it is believed to be the settled modern practice, that in all instances in which irregularities could formerly be corrected upon a writ of error coram nobis or audita querela, the same objects may be effected by motion to the court, as a mode more simple, more expeditious, and less fruitful of difficulty and expense.’ ” (p. 577)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is well settled that when government invokes the aid of the court as a litigant it stands as any other litigant, with the same obligation to give effect to the rights of the person sued. It cannot ask the court to render a judgment or to enforce it without submitting itself to do justice.””
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.