Jackson v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently January 1995 · most notably 276 So. 2d 286 - Smolinski v. Taulli (1973), Snodgrass v. Centanni (1956)
4 federal appellate · 84 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 Insurance Company v. Tweed · White v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co. · Herget v. Saucier · Board of Com'rs v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS EX REL. PUBLIC BELT R. COMMISSION · Tomlinson v. Vicksburg
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... the criterion governing liability is whether the person creating the danger could or should reasonably have foreseen that the accident might occur. If such were the case, then he is liable notwithstanding the intervening cause." Jackson v. Jones, supra, 69 So.2d at 733 .”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Of course, if this pile of lumber provided no great hazard to the safety of the children because it was stacked evenly, was only two feet high and did not contain protruding nails, as found by the district judge in the Court of Appeal, there would not be any liability as it is essential, in this type of case (like those following under the attractive nuisance doctrine), that the offending object be not only tempting and inviting to the child but it must also be inherently dangerous for him to climb or play on." 69 So.2d at 731 . (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * it is basically inaccurate to say that a seven year old child attending the first grade at school is legally responsible for the consequences of her impulsive act in walking or jumping on a two-foot pile of lumber located on the school playground while engaged in the game of "follow the leader”
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.