Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey (1947), Belford v. Belford (1947)
54 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 Frazier v. Frazier · Fields v. Fields · Green v. Green · Gedney v. Gedney · Mehaffey v. Mehaffey
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that the petition for writ of certiorari should be granted and the order complained of should be quashed, with directions to the Chancellor to award the custody of James David Kelly to his mother Effie Mae Dobbs, provided the said mother ceases working and devotes her time and attention to her minor son; and with the further direction that the father may visit the child at such reasonable times and places as may be determined by the Chancellor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well settled that in a proceeding involving custody of minor children the welfare of the children is the controlling consideration. * * * Ordinarily, in the case of children of tender years such welfare is not best promoted by ordering a divided custody of such children between the parents. * * * or by taking them from the mother, unless it be shown that she is not a fit and proper person to have them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dobbs v. Kelly“we are always reluctant to reverse an order made in a proceeding of this nature”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dobbs v. Kelly
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.