Jackson v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Hayes v. Xerox Corp. (1986), Gudenau & Co., Inc. v. Sweeney Ins., Inc. (1987)
29 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 Nordin Construction Company v. City of Nome · Peters v. Juneau-Douglas Girl Scout Council · Rego v. Decker · Day v. a & G Construction Co., Inc. · Preferred General Agency of Alaska, Inc. v. Raffetto
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Findings of fact shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous, and due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge of the credibility of the witnesses.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“No estate or interest in real property, other than a lease for a term no[t] exceeding one year, nor any trust or power concerning the property may be created, transferred, or declared, otherwise than by operation of law, or by a conveyance or other instrument in writing subscribed by the party creating, transferring, or declaring it or by his agent under written authority and executed with the formalities that are required by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Curran v. Hastreiter““Where the existence of an oral contract and the terms thereof are the points in issue and the evidence is conflicting, it is for the trier of the facts to determine whether the contract did in fact exist, and if so, the terms thereof.””
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.