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← 255 SW2D 658 - Jones v. Sutton

Jones v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis

1953

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 2008
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strode v. Strode · Dukes v. Davis · Turner v. Howard · Ellis v. Central Trust Co. of Owensboro

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “inclined to the view that if a forgery constitutes a fraud upon the court, the judgment might be adjudged void without regard to statutory limitations based upon `irregularity'.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “attack a judgment of adoption for `irregularity in procedures.'”
    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.