Jones v. Flood’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2019
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc. · Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Zenobia · Smith v. Gray Concrete Pipe Co. · Stewart v. United Electric Light & Power Co. · Biro v. Schombert
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there are a few states in which the damages in a survival action are measured by the post-death lost gross earnings less the amount that the decedent would have expended on the support of others and for the decedent's personal maintenance, reduced to present value”
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.