Jacobson v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
October 1985
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Lyle Cashion Company v. McKendrick · Butler v. Bolinger · Streckfus Steamers, Inc. v. Kiersky · Sharp v. Learned
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As heretofore shown, the jurisdiction of the court over the subject matter of a cause of action must be conferred by law, and it cannot under any circumstance be conferred on a court, as such, by consent of the parties. It materially follows that if jurisdiction cannot be conferred by consent, the want thereof cannot be waived by any act of the parties.”
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.