Jones v. . Kent’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1929
14 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Received of J. W. Jones by agreement, one thousand shares of St. Joe Lead Stock, for which I have paid him $3,000. The understanding is that I am to give said Jones one-half of whatever price the same is sold for, when sold over and above that sum. “ Dated New York, June 19, 1866. “ E. ROCKWELL.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simon v. Etgen
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.