Jones v. Kolb’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1971
5 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“separate and distinct municipal corporations, as much so as the town from whose territory the village is formed. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. (1971)“. . . intended to separate the village from the town for the purpose of elections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. (1971)
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.