Jones v. Conwell’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Porter v. Com. (2008), Doss v. Jamco, Inc. (1997)
6 federal appellate · 109 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 Allen v. Parkey · Jamestown Terminal Elevator, Inc. v. Knopp · Leonard v. Boswell · Mears 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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rules of statutory interpretation argue against reading any legislative enactment in a manner that will make a portion of it useless, repetitious, or absurd. On the contrary, it is well established that every act of the legislature should be read so as to give reasonable effect to every word and to promote the ability of the enactment to remedy the mischief at which it is directed.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is settled that tenancies by the entirety are based upon the same four unities that support joint tenancies, that is, the unities of title, estate, time, and possession. However, it is also settled that tenancies by the entirety are supported by a fifth unity which they do not share with any other tenancy: the unity of marriage. That unity embodies the legal fiction that husband and wife are one. And it leads to the result that neither husband nor wife can by his or her sole act defeat the survivorship interest of the other spouse. Neither spouse can by separate act make an absolute disposition of property they hold as tenants by the entirety, nor can a judgment lien creditor of one spouse subject that property to the satisfaction of his lien.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rogers v. Rogers · In Re Zella“Section 55-20 shall not apply to ... an estate conveyed or devised to persons... when it manifestly appears from foe tenor of foe instrument that it was intended foe part of foe one dying should then belong to foe others.”
2 later decisions 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.