Jones v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Midgett v. State (1981), Mason v. Commonwealth (1958)
9 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 Butts v. Commonwealth · Houston v. Commonwealth · Brookman v. Commonwealth
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To constitute robbery, the act must be done with a specific criminal intent existing at the time of the commission of the act---- If the criminal intent did not exist when the alleged offense was committed, the crime has not been established. The intent subsequent to the taking is immaterial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of the personal property of another, from his person or in his presence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pettus v. Peyton · Com. v. Anderson
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.