Jones v. Mortimer’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 122 Cal. App. 3d 834 - Electronic Equipment Express, Inc. v. Donald H. Seiler & Co. (1981), Stock v. Meek (1950)
6 federal appellate · 68 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 3 Cal. 2d 740 - Union Sugar Co. v. Hollister Estate Co. · 20 Cal. 2d 646 - Harrison v. Adams · McDougald v. Hulet · Bliss v. Sneath · Moore v. Gould
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * can mean nothing more or less than that each of the claimants is paid to the extent that their claims are equal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall be deemed compensated, so far as they equal each other.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he statute of limitations is not available to [the] plaintiff as to [the] defendants' counterclaim if the period has not run on it at the time of commencement of plaintiff's action even though it has run when the counterclaim is pleaded. [Citations.]”
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.