Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably Knight v. State (1962), Smarr v. State (1953)
1 federal appellate · 134 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 Parrish v. State · Storey v. State · Godau v. State · Ford v. State · Burton 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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the qualification of the witness is sufficient is a question to be determined by the trial court, and the very nature of the test requires that its determination in particular cases be left to the sound discretion of the trial court, and which will not be revised on appeal, except for palpable abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The correctness of the diagram, as well as the accuracy of the testimony relative thereto, was a question for the jury, as was, also,, the extent to which they were aided by said diagram.”'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardie v. State
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.