Jones v. Muir’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 2010 Pa. Super. 95 - PETOW v. Warehime (2010), In Re Nomination Petition of Farnese (2011)
39 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Hall v. Cole · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the services protect a common fund for administration or distribution under the direction of the court, or where such fund has been raised for like purpose, it is liable for costs and expenses, including counsel fees incurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The applicant for counsel fees has the burden of proving his/her entitlement thereto.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the classes of beneficiaries [have been] small in number and easily identifiable”
2 later decisions 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.