Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1997 · most notably 533 So. 2d 473 - Lanier v. State (1988), Camargo v. State (1997)
25 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 Clark v. State · Carpenter v. State · Simpson v. State · Brockelhurst v. State · Wells 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If it be said that the imposition of the death penalty shows what was intended, it may be answered that a capital sentence may not be imposed by intendment.... However technical this may appear, it is nevertheless the requirement of the law. . . . . . We may not ignore the statute ... by saying that it is technical, or highly technical, nor may we ignore it in a particular case where we feel assured that the jury found the accused guilty of murder in the first degree, but did not reflect that finding in the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Camargo v. State“The trial court offered, in this case, to have process issued for the physician who made the report; and this must be done when objection to the use of the report is made, to comply with the provision of the Constitution above quoted, that the defendant be "confronted with the witnesses against him." However, the report might be offered as original testimony when this is done by consent or without objection. (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The jury shall, in all cases of murder, on conviction of the accused, find by their verdict whether he be guilty of murder in the first or second degree ...,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Camargo 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.