Jones v. Rush’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 1972 · most notably Bragg v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. (1905), 161 Mo. App. 185 - Royal Mining Company v. Fidelity Casualty Co. (1911)
28 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 Courtney v. Blackwell · Ringo v. Richardson · Bobb v. Wolff · Forrester v. Moore · State ex rel. Armstrong v. Rau
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * A defendant is required to plead affirmatively only matters in the nature of confession and avoidance; that is, matters which, though the statements in the petition may be true, would nevertheless defeat the action, — as, for example, release, payment, accord and satisfaction, etc. * * * ””
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.