Rhodes v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Forbis v. Neal (2007), Terry v. Terry (1981)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 110 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 McNeill v. . McNeill · Patuxent Development Co. v. Bearden · Barron v. . Cain · Cotton Mills v. . Manufacturing Co. · Hill v. . Stansbury
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) which created the relation of trust and confidence, and (2) led up to and surrounded the consummation of the transaction in which defendant is alleged to have taken advantage of his position of trust to the hurt of plaintiff.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is not sufficient for plaintiff to allege merely that defendant had won his trust and confidence and occupied a position of dominant influence over him. Nor does it suffice for him to allege that the deed in question was obtained by fraud and undue influence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“part of the story of their friendship which plaintiff alleges grew to the point where defendant had a commanding influence over him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones Gg v. The American Tobacco Company · Winfred P. Jones, Irene W. Anthony, Kelly E. Brown, Gracie J. Carroll, R. Allen Carroll, Helen O. Coleman, Percy T. Collins, Velma P. Collins, Blanch M. Chatmon, Mary L. Comer, Richard Courts, Daisy J. Crowder, Ernest C. Dickens, Thelma T. Dickens, Novella M. Durham, Dorothy A. Early, Rhodalia C. Eaton, Jessie W. Ferguson, Thomas P. Garrison, Jr., Henry C. Gwynn, Charlotte R. Harden, Mabel D. Holland, James H. Hopper, Irene W. Huskey, Earleen B. Isley, Wilbert C. Jones, Willie P. Kelly, Annie P. King, Ruth H. Lillard, Joseph Maroney, Frances H. Meeks, Frances C. Oakley, Hazel C. Roach, Robert v. Scott, Godfrey D. Slade, Robert L. Smith, Marjorie B. Smothers, Kenneth C. Southard, Mildred M. Stevens, Charles E. Stone, Oscar W. Underwood, Laverne T. Washburn, Elva W. Williams, George E. Williams, M. Ruth Wright, Joseph Alston, Thomas Baker, James P. Browning, Willie C. Colclough, Louise H. Hall, Mary G. Horton, Omer G. Markham, Lois S. May, Mildred McFarland Charles K. McKinney Thelma Page, Otis R. Pulley, Eleanor M. Ray, Elizabeth E. Stell, George W. Strayhorn, Donald B. Tilley, Jr., Ralph Watkins, Norma Watson, Weldon R. Price, Douglas W. Jordan, Jr., Lillie Odom, Clarence O. Terrell, G.G. Spratt, William P. Neal, Jr., and Elizabeth C. Gaiser, Kenneth A. Hodges v. The American Tobacco Company, and American Brands, Incorporated, Winfred P. Jones, Irene W. Anthony, Kelly E. Brown, Gracie J. Carroll, R. Allen Carroll, Helen O. Coleman, Percy T. Collins, Velma P. Collins, Blanch M. Chatmon, Mary L. Comer, Richard Courts, Daisy J. Crowder, Ernest C. Dickens, Thelma T. Dickens, Novella M. Durham, Dorothy A. Early, Rhodalia C. Eaton, Jessie W. Ferguson, Thomas P. Garrison, Jr., Henry C. Gwynn, Charlotte R. Harden, Mabel D. Holland, James H. Hopper, Irene W. Huskey, Earleen B. Isley, Wilbert C. Jones, Willie P. Kelly, Annie P. King, Ruth H. Lillard, Joseph Maroney, Frances H. Meeks, Frances C. Oakley, Hazel C. Roach, Robert v. Scott, Godfrey D. Slade, Robert L. Smith, Marjorie B. Smothers, Kenneth C. Southard, Mildred M. Stevens, Charles E. Stone, Oscar W. Underwood, Laverne T. Washburn, Elva W. Williams, George E. Williams, M. Ruth Wright, Joseph Alston, Thomas Baker, James P. Browning, Willie C. Colclough, Louise H. Hall, Mary G. Horton, Omer G. Markham, Lois S. May, Mildred McFarland Charles K. McKinney Thelma Page, Otis R. Pulley, Eleanor M. Ray, Elizabeth E. Stell, George W. Strayhorn, Donald B. Tilley, Jr., Ralph Watkins, Norma Watson, Weldon R. Price, Douglas W. Jordan, Jr., Lillie Odom, Clarence O. Terrell, G.G. Spratt, William P. Neal, Jr., and Elizabeth C. Gaiser, Kenneth A. Hodges v. The American Tobacco Company, and American Brands, Incorporated
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.