Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably United States v. Williamson (1995), 12 Cal. 4th 694 - In Re Avena (1996)
6 federal appellate · 26 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 Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Cronic · Arizona v. Hicks · Irving v. Mississippi · State v. Harbison
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The adversarial process protected by the Sixth Amendment requires that the accused have 'counsel acting in the role of an advocate'. The right to the effective assistance of counsel is thus the right of the accused to require the prosecution's case to survive the crucible of meaningful adversarial testing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We are unable to conclude with a strong degree of certainty that the second prong of the Strickland test, which requires a showing of prejudice, has also been met. Nevertheless, in a capital case involving an error of this magnitude, we are constrained to give the full benefit of the doubt on this issue to [the defendant]. In addressing this same issue, the Supreme Court of North Carolina determined that prejudice may be presumed where defense counsel improperly concedes his client's guilt....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“completely eroded any doubt that might have been raised in the juror's mind by [the defendant's] protestations of innocence”
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.