Jones v. Wolf

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• no implied trust of local church property found in favor of PCUS
• no implied trust of local church property found in favor of PCUS
• discussing \documents of church government\
• discussing “documents of church government”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jones v. Wolf
  Supreme Court· 1979-07-02· cited 834×
• Presbytery of Beaver-Butler v. Middlesex Presbyterian Church
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-03· cited 95×
• Crumbley v. Solomon
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-03-15· cited 69×
• TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN, ETC. v. Tankersley
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1979-08-17· cited 36×
• Protestant Episcopal Church v. Barker
  California Court of Appeal· 1981-01-30· cited 34×
• Jones v. Wolf
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-09-27· cited 27×
• In Re Church of St. James the Less
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-29· cited 25×
• Rector of Christ Church v. Bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Georgia, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-21· cited 10×
• Fonken v. Community Church of Kamrar
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1983-10-19· cited 8×
• Coles v. Wilburn
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-04-25· cited 5×
• Bishop and Diocese of Colorado v. Mote
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1983-08-22· cited 2×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Presbyterian Church in US v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 850×
• Presbyterian Church in United States v. Eastern Heights Presbyterian Church
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-04-14· cited 55×
• Carnes v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-06· cited 55×
• Lucas v. Hope
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-22· cited 1×