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← 184 VA 679 - Jones v. Commonwealth

Jones v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

1946

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 28 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably United States v. Carthorne (2013), Banovitch v. Commonwealth (1954)

5 federal appellate · 28 state decisions

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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 Mickens v. Commonwealth · Williams v. Commonwealth · State v. Newsom

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Battery is the actual infliction of corporal hurt on another . . . willfully or in anger . . . .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Ronnie Antjuan Vaughn v. Commonwealth of Virginia · 33 Va. App. 463 - Adams v. Commonwealth
  2. “attempt or offer with force or violence to do a corporal hurt to another ... as by striking at him, or even holding up one’s fist at him in a threatening or insulting manner, or pointing a weapon at him within reach . . . [and] the actual infliction of corporal hurt on another . . . wilfully or in anger, whether by the party’s own hand, or by some means set in motion by him.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Vaughn
  3. “An assault is any attempt or offer, with force or violence, to do some bodily hurt to another, whether from wantonness or malice, by means calculated to produce the end if carried into execution.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Ronnie Antjuan Vaughn v. Commonwealth of Virginia

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.