Church v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 1974
22 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 Coats v. Milner
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In that case the court said that the manifest purpose of the Legislature in defining a counterclaim was to permit persons who have gone to law to settle, in a single suit, all matters in dispute between them, whether the respective causes of action grow out of the same or different contracts or whether they arise upon contract or arise out of some tort.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Romes
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.