Jones v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently September 1983 · most notably McMillan v. Aiken (1920), Batson v. State Ex Rel. Davis (1927)
115 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 Tobler v. Pioneer Mining & Mfg. Co. · Shipp v. Shelton · Amerson v. Corona Coal & Iron Co. · Ex parte Goldberg & Lewis · Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City R. R. v. Bromberg
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A court should never direct a verdict when the evidence is such as to afford a reasonable inference of the existence of any fact unfavorable to the right of the party asking the affirmative charge to the verdict.' . . . Jones v. Bell , 201 Ala. 336 , 77 So. 998 (1917).”
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.