Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2015
14 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 Jones v. Jones · Marsh & McLennan of Arkansas v. Herget · Sunbelt Exploration Co. v. Stephens Production Co. · Childs v. Adams · 8 Ark. App. 306 - Paulson v. Paulson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We find ample authority permitting an award of attorney’s fees in cases involving the modification of a custody decree. A court enjoys inherent authority to award attorney’s fees in such cases. Moreover, Ark.Code Ann. § 9-12-309(a) (Repl.1993), which authorizes the award of attorney’s fees in divorce actions, has been construed as permitting the award of attorney’s fees in child-custody modification actions, as the latter necessarily derive or continue from the former.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.