Commonwealth v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 1985 · most notably Hill v. State (1972), State v. Johnston (1969)
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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the jurisdiction of an offense be in two or more counties, the defendant shall be tried in the county in which he is first arrested, unless the indictment for the offense be pending in another court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the case at bar jurisdiction to try the accused was by statute as above indicated, concurrent in the two counties where the crime was committed —the one in which the shot was fired, and the one in which the death resulted. The authorities of the county where the shot was fired first arrested Barbour. So far as he was concerned, the deed was done. It merely depended upon later developments to determine the degree of his crime, if guilty. Having him in custody, it was competent for the examining court of Bullitt county to have 'changed the charge upon which he was arrested so as to fit the facts of the case at any time pending the inquiry.””
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.