Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1945
10 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 Prater v. State · Albritton v. State · Tatum v. State · Hatch v. State · Beavers v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Evidence to support an alibi should be weighed, considered by the jury just as other evidence and in connection with all the other evidence, and, if, upon consideration of the whole evidence, there is a reasonable doubt of defendant’s guilt, he should be acquitted.” Jones v. State, 58 So. 250 , 176 Ala. 20 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Our decisions have varied somewhat, as to the burden of proof, the shifting of the burden of proof and the sufficiency of the proof, in cases of alibi. ‘The pendulum has probably swung too far in both directions.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.