Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably Walton, Mayor v. Donnelly (1921), People v. Shawyer (1924)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Matthews v. Kimball · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Love · Eastern Arkansas Hedge Fence Co. v. Tanner · State v. Gallagher · Lee v. Huff
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general terms, `incompetency, malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance,' have reference to official conduct. The term `corruption' might have reference to acts constituting official corruption, or it might be applied to individual delinquencies not in connection with his office, constituting corruption or dishonesty, as the term is evidently intended to mean.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kirkpatrick v. State““When general words follow an enumeration of particular things, such words must be held to include only such things or objects as are of the same kind as those specifically enumerated.””
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.