Jones v. Loving’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2006
4 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 In re the Estate of Stevens · Wooley v. Shell Petroleum Corp. · Lynn v. Hookaday · In re the Estate of Johnson · Snuffer v. Westbrook
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to participate in the compensation payable under the death benefit provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act a person must be an heir at law of decedent as defined by the descent and distribution statutes and a dependent as defined by the Workmen’s Compensation Act.””
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.