Jones v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably California v. Ramos (1983), 60 Cal. 2d 631 - People v. Morse (1964)
50 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 Commonwealth v. Johnson · Postell v. Commonwealth · State v. Carroll · Coward v. Commonwealth · McCann 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on speculative elements, rather than on the relevant facts of the case, [since this] would lead inevitably to unjust verdicts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it did not fully inform the jury upon the point to which their inquiry was directed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should not fix a defendant's punishment with the view of preventing the operation of laws that have been duly enacted for the handling of a prisoner after sentence in a way considered by the lawmakers to be in the best interests of the public and of the prisoner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.