Jones v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 1993
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Trimble v. Gordon · Lalli v. Lalli · Home of the Holy Infancy v. Kaska · Lovejoy v. Lillie · Ramon v. Califano
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a man, having by a woman a child shall afterwards intermarry with such woman, such child shall thereby be legitimate, and made capable of inheriting his estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moorehead v. Bowen
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.