Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2018
15 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 Utermehle v. Norment · Welborn v. Whitney · Rumpf v. Rumpf · Mills v. Baird · Leatherwood v. Stephens
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A foreign will or testamentary instrument offered for filing and recording may be contested only upon the ground that the conditions of this Code are not met, * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barney v. Huff“in due time or proper manner; in accordance with what is right, required, or suitable; fittingly, becomingly, regular”
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.