Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1972
6 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 Benton v. King · Renick v. Renick · Jones v. Jones · Duff v. Duff
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It follows that the Court was wholly without power to award appellee alimony, since the original judgment rendered almost two years previously was tantamount to a denial of appellee’s prayer for alimony, and the Court’s jurisdiction to reconsider that denial was lost through appellee’s failure to move for a reconsideration or correction during the term in which the judgment was rendered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hodges v. Hodges
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.