Jones v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 24 · 1877
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 11 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Mitchum v. Foster (1972), Toucey v. New York Life Insurance (1941)
30 federal appellate · 11 district · 61 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Swain v. Seamens · Horatio Slater v. Charles Emerson
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Impossible conditions cannot be performed; and if a person contracts to do what at the time is absolutely impossible, the contract will not bind him, because no man can be obligated to perform an impossibility. Jacksonville, M. P. Ry. & Nav. Co. v. Hooper, 1896, 160 U.S. 514, 528 , 16 S.Ct. 379 , 40 L.Ed. 515 ; Jones v. United States, 1877, 96 U.S. 24, 29 , 24 L.Ed. 644 . See also Wood v. Bartolino, 1944, 48 N.M. 175 , 146 P.2d 883 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoke v. Brown““The rule in such a case is that the purchaser is not bound to accept and pay for goods, unless the same are delivered or tendered on the day specified in the contract.”
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.