Jones v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2018
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 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 Hopson v. St. Mary's Hospital · Whittlesey v. Miller · Swartz v. United States Steel Corporation · Yonner v. Adams · Stenta v. Leblang
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the party asserting the cause of action was married to the person who suffered a physical injury at the time the physical injury occurred; (2) that, as a result of the physical injury, the other spouse was deprived of some benefit which formerly existed in the marriage; and (3) that the injured spouse has a valid cause of action for recovery against the tortfeasor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[B]ecause a consortium action is derivative of the injured spouse's cause of action, the consortium claim would be barred when the suit brought by the injured spouse has been terminated by settlement or by an adverse judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[J]oinder of the consortium claim is procedurally required.... To establish her derivative [consortium] claim ... wife must, of course, prove the underlying liability of the tortfeasor for the husband's physical injury.”
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.