Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Campbell v. Holt (1885), Van Antwerp v. Van Antwerp (1941)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 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 William M'Elmoyle for the Use of Isaac Bailey v. John J Cohen · Doe ex dem Duval's heirs v. McLoskey · Pearsall v. Dwight · Lincoln v. Battelle · Howell v. Hair
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“duty 6 Jones states: It is a principle of law, admitted by all courts, that the lex loci contractus must govern as to the validity, interpretation, and construction of the contract. But the remedy to enforce it, or to recover damages for its breach, must be pursued according to the law of the forum where the suit is brought. 18 Ala. at 250 Macey provides”
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.