Jones v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Hopkins v. State (1985), Woodring v. Hall (1968)
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 McGee v. International Life Insurance · Hess v. Pawloski · Ogdon v. Gianakos · Pinkston v. Rice Motor Co. · Foster v. Humburg
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the law of this state that a statute which merely changes a remedy is not invalid, as there are no vested rights in any particular remedy. While generally statutes will not be construed to give them retroactive application unless it appears that such was the legislative intent, nevertheless when a change of law merely affects the remedy or law of procedure, all rights of action will be enforced under the new procedure without regard to whether they accrued before or after such change of law and without regard to whether or not the suit has been instituted, unless there is a saving clause as to existing litigation. * * *”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he mode or proceeding by which a legal right is enforced, as distinguished from the law which gives or defines the right, and which by means of the proceeding, the court is to administer-the machinery, as distinguished from its product; ... including pleading, process, evidence, and practice.... Practice [is] the form ... for the enforcement of rights or the redress of wrongs, as distinguished from the substantive law which gives the right or denounces the wrong....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It has been held a valid exercise of the police power of this state to regulate, limit and control the use of its highways in order to promote the safety and general welfare of the people, and this power extends to use by nonresidents as well as residents. (Riddle v. State Highway Commission, 184 Kan. 603 , 339 P. 2d 301 ; Smith v. State Highway Commission, 185 Kan. 445 , 346 P. 2d 259 .)” (p. 116.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.