Grimes v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2008
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 Morris v. Dooley · Bobo v. State · Ward v. Magness · Shaver v. Nash
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““J. Y. Mann Petition to have Tom & Lawson Ozment adopted as his Sons. GRANTED. “Comes J. Y. Mann and files his petition praying the Court for an order adopting Tom & Lawson Ozment as the sons of the said J. Y. Mann and it appearing from the evidence of the said J. Y. Mann and others that the said Tom Ozment is only 8 years of age and Lawson Ozment is 11 years old and that the said children have no parents living. The Petition of the said J. Y. Mann is by the Court considered and granted. It is Therefore by the Court ordered that the said children be and they are hereby adopted as the sons of the said J. Y. Mann and they shall be entitled to and receive all the rights and interests in the estate of such adopted Father by descent or otherwise. “It is ordered that Court adjourn until Tuesday Morning at 9 O’clock, s/ J. C. Bratton, Judge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ozment v. Mann
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.