Jones v. Cable’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2003
17 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 Watts v. Watts · Jones v. Jones
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. there was a change in the circumstances of the child or parent so material and substantial that 2. retention of the present managing conservator would be injurious to the welfare of the child; and 3. the appointment of a new managing conservator would be a positive improvement for the child.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(c) . . . (1) ... the circumstances of the child or parent have so materially and substantially changed since the entry of the order or decree to be modified that the retention of the present managing conservator would be injurious to the welfare of the child and that the appointment of the new managing conservator would be a positive improvement for the child....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that the appointment if LAWRENCE J. RUTLAND as the new managing conservator would be a positive improvement for the children? ANSWER: “We do” or “We do not.” ANSWER: We do”
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.