Jackson v. Swift & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1987
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.
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Smith · Hahn v. King · 30 La. Ann. 63 - Saloy v. Collins · Stark v. Burke
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.
“If we should be wrong about this [which we believe that the court was], it being established by the evidence that both Elijah and Mary were in good faith when they married and continued to live together in good faith for more than 25 years, they were putative husband and wife.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.