Jones v. Spear’s Empirical Analysis
1849
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1990
10 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 Crane v. Stickles
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In England, where the right of trial by jury is acknowledged to quite as enlarged an extent as in this country, there are many kinds of defences, (which are considered as technical, and not favored,) which the rules of the courts will not permit to be made, unless the party interposing them will make an affidavit of the truth of such defence, and that the same will be made to appear on trial. And in many of the states, whose constitutions contain similar provisions with ours, their courts have rules like those of the English courts; — but in neither country has it ever been supposed, that the right of trial by jury was thereby impaired or trenched upon.”
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.