Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Cox v. Cox (1994), Money v. Money (1993)
28 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 Lustig v. United States · Merrill v. Merrill · Wanberg v. Wanberg · Moffitt v. Moffitt · Burrell v. Burrell
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The division of property must fairly allocate the economic effect of divorce by being based on consideration of the following factors: (A) the length of the marriage and station in life of the parties during the marriage; (B) the age and health of the parties; (C) the earning capacity of the parties, including their educational backgrounds, training, employment skills, work experiences, length of absence from the job market, and custodial responsibilities for children during the marriage; (D) the financial condition of the parties, including the availability and cost of health insurance; (E) the conduct of the parties, including whether there has been unreasonable depletion of marital assets; (F) the desirability of awarding the family home, or the right to live in it for a reasonable period of time, to the party who has primary physical custody of children; (G) the circumstances and necessities of each party; (H) the time and manner of acquisition of the property in question; and (I) the income-producing capacity of the property and the value of the property at the time of division.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Green v. Green“In a judgment in an action for divorce ... the court may provide ... for the recovery by one party from the other of an amount of money for maintenance, for a limited or indefinite period of time, ... an award of maintenance must fairly allocate the economic effect of divorce....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Blaufuss v. Ball“the earning capacity of the parties, including their educational backgrounds, training, employment skills, work experiences ... and custodial responsibilities during the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cartee v. Cartee
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.