York v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2014
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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Carnegie v. United States · Lake Country Estates, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Verderber v. Cantello Plumbing Corp.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) plaintiff must have a property interest in the thing sought to be recovered; (2) the right to immediate possession; (3) the property is capable of identification; (4) the property must be of some value; and (5) defendant must have had possession at some time prior to the institution of the act.” York v. Jones, 717 F.Supp. 421, 427 (E.D.Va.1989). The Supreme Court of Virginia has held that, in such an action, ”[i]f the specific property cannot be returned, judgment is rendered for its value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the event of divorce, we understand that legal ownership of any stored pre-zygotes must be determined in a property settlement and will be released as directed by order of a court of competent jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.