Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2010
8 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 29 Tenn. App. 463 - Osborne v. Osborne · Perry v. Perry
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Basically, the rule adopted by the courts is that such change in circumstances must be shown to have occurred since the original award as would justify a decrease or increase in the amount of the award. Osborne v. Osborne, (1946) 29 Tenn.App. 463 , 197 S.W.2d 234 . “The equities of the present situation must be developed and shown to justify an alteration of the terms of the previous decree.” Perry v. Perry, (1946), 183 Tenn. 362 , 192 S.W.2d 830 . (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Seal v. Seal
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.