Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2012
22 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 Jones v. Jones · York v. State · Holmes v. Holmes · Jones v. Jones · Ledwidge v. Taylor
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . nor is a decree for future payments of permanent alimony a final decree upon which an execution might be issued or which might become a lien upon real estate.” 2”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Frazier v. Hanes · Miles v. Gay““In order to collect on such a continuing general decree, it would be necessary to ascertain from time to time the amount of arrearages due in the payment of alimony and render a decree for the specific amount due. For these purposes the parties to the suit continue to be parties and, being parties already, it would not be necessary to get personal service upon them to carry out and enforce a continuing decree when an attempt is made to reduce the decree to a definite and certain amount, * * * > J”
2 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.