Jones v. Warden’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably 173 W. Va. 43 - State v. Kopa (1983), 200 W. Va. 280 - State v. Hinkle (1996)
1 federal appellate · 28 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Smith v. Crouse · Hankerson v. North Carolina · 157 W. Va. 640 - State v. Thomas
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.
“declined to resort to such a trap of procedure, the last avenue of escape for the third rate legal technician.... It seems utterly nonsensical to deprive an innocent man of his liberty because his lawyer failed [to object] at his trial....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Meadows v. Legursky“[s]afeguarding the integrity of the factfinding process must take priority over procedural concerns.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meadows v. Legursky
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.