Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 1978 · most notably Gardner v. Allegheny County (1955), Jones v. Jones (1943)
5 federal appellate · 37 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 Blair v. Commissioner · Irwin v. Gavit · Curry v. McCanless · Brown v. Fletcher · Senior v. Braden
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“concerning property within the Jurisdiction of the Court, and on the Defendants not resident or found therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grimes v. Grimes“The test of jurisdiction, the subject of this appeal, is the presence of property in the jurisdiction,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grimes v. Grimes
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.