Jones v. McGahey’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2019
14 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 Sample v. Romine · Russell v. Douglas · Carter v. Abramo · Hunt v. Elliott · Hazell MacHine Co. v. Shahan
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A contract is sufficiently definite if it contains matter which will enable the court under proper rules of construction to ascertain its terms, including consideration of the general circumstances of the parties and if necessary relevant extrinsic evidence. Having found a contract to have been made, an agreement should not be frustrated where it is possible to reach a reasonable and fair result. Corbin, Contracts, § 95 (1963); 17 Am.Jur.2d Contracts, §§ 75-77 (1964); cf. Russell v. Douglas, 243 Miss. 497, 504 , 138 So.2d 730 (1962)." 187 So.2d at 584 .”
12 later decisions 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.