Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2019
8 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 Verry v. Murphy · Rummel v. Rummel · Balafas v. Balafas · Schlichenmayer v. Luithle · Buettner v. Nostdahl
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A party to a contract may rescind the same in the following cases only: "1. If the consent of the party rescinding... was given by mistake or obtained through ... fraud, ... exercised by or with the connivance of the party as to whom he rescinds ...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eszlinger v. Wetzel
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.