Jones v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The evidence justifies the conclusion that defendant and his wife were at the time living together under the régime of the legal community of acquets and gains. It follows that he as the head and master of the community owes for the service and medicine furnished to his wife equally and the same as if they had been furnished to himself. The fact that his wife died does not alter the case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 243 So. 2d 827 - Credit Service Corp. v. Dickerson