Liddell v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2001
16 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 355 So. 2d 667 - Richardson v. Riley · Ellis v. Berry · Bell v. Oates · Collins'estate v. Dunn, Et Ux. · In re Estate of Whittington
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has said, however, many times, that claims of the character mentioned above, brought up for the first time after the death of the decedent, are looked upon by the courts with disfavor; and in order to maintain such a claim the evidence must clearly establish a contract, express or implied, between the claimant and the decedent, for the payment of compensation for such service. Bell v. Oates, 97 Miss. 790 , 53 So. 491 ; Ellis v. Berry supra [ 145 Miss. 652 , 110 So. 211 ]; Wells et al v. Brooks, 199 Miss. 327 , 24 So.2d 533 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“limited to the monetary equivalent of the reasonable value of the services rendered to the decedent”
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.