Jacobs v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably 178 W. Va. 659 - McGlone v. Superior Trucking Co., Inc. (1987), Blanton v. Prudential-Bache Securities, Inc. (In Re Blanton) (1989)
25 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 Furnish v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Hartman v. Strickler · Roanoke Railway & Electric Co. v. Whitner
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`is to be determined on consideration of the surrounding circumstances such as age, sex, capacity, situation, and relation of the parties.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[djespite the language of presumption generally employed, this is no more than a permissive inference. It does not supplant the necessity for other, at least prima facie, proof sufficient to sustain a judgment or a decree.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The decisions on coerced resignations and constructive discharge are essentially fact-based rulings. The issue depends upon the facts of each case and requires an inquiry into the intent of the employer and the reasonably foreseeable impact of the employer’s conduct on the employee. The burden of proof is on the employee to show duress by proving that his or her will was overborne by bad faith on the part of the employer.”
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.