Jones v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Presbytery of Beaver-Butler v. Middlesex Presbyterian Church (1985), 210 Ga. App. 231 - Crocker v. Stevens (1993)
27 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 Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for United States and Canada v. Milivojevich · Maryland and Virginia Eldership of Churches of God v. Church of God at Sharpsburg Inc · Crumbley v. Solomon · Sapp v. Callaway · Jones v. Wolf
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A review of those sources discloses no provision that would rebut the Georgia presumption of majority rule as to the right to control the actions of the titleholder — that is, as to the right to possess, enjoy and control the use of these church premises. This silence distinguishes the present case from Crumbley v. Solomon [ 243 Ga. 343 , 254 S.E.2d 330 ], supra. “The judgment of the trial court is affirmed for the reasons stated in this opinion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marich v. Kragulac“church documents will be considered only insofar as they determine or assist in the determination of the persons who are entitled to possess and enjoy the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defeasible upon a showing that the identity of the local church is to be determined by some other means....”
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.