Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2006
1 federal appellate · 13 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If Mrs. Jones wished to hold merely a life estate in this property, with remainder to her children, we see no reason why this might not be done. It would be, in effect, a declaration of trust made by her for their benefit. The children’s claim, in such a case, would derive its validity not merely from the agreement of the other parties interested in the estate, but from the express written agreement signed by Mrs. Jones.” (Emphasis ours.)”
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.