Jones v. Meriwether’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 1985 · most notably Dewberry v. Bank of Standing Rock (1933), &198tna Ins. Co. v. Baldwin Cty. Bldg. Loan Ass'n (1935)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 American Freehold Land Mortgage Co. v. Sewell · Lindsay v. United States Savings & Loan Co. · Drum & Ezekiel v. Bryan · Barclift v. Fields · Askew v. Sanders
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if any interest has been paid the same must be deducted from the principal and judgment rendered for the balance only,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cannot be enforced either at law or in equity, except as to the principal”
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.