Jones v. . Stanly’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1970 · most notably Angle v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. (1894), Childress v. Abeles (1954)
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Haskins v. Royster
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It Avas decided in Haskins v. Royster, 70 N. C. 601 , that if a person maliciously entices laborers or croppers to break their contracts with their employer and desert his service, the employer may recover damages against such person. The same reasons cover every case where one person maliciously persuades another to break any contract with a third person. .It is not confined to contracts for service.”
1 later decision 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.