Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2015
19 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 Halstead Ex Rel. Lee v. Halstead · Wells v. Wells · Norenberg v. Norenberg · Sandler v. Sandler · In Re Fagin's Estate
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`[T]hough it be assumed that the best interest of younger children is served by placing him in a mother's care that is but an inference which yields to evidence tending to show otherwise.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is also an almost universal rule that when a child is of sufficient age, intelligence, and discretion to exercise an en lightened judgment, his or her wishes, though not controlling, may be considered by the court, with other relevant factors, in determining child custody rights.”
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.