Jones v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Doe ex rel. Doe v. New York City Department of Social Services (1981), Goff v. Commonwealth (1931)
3 federal appellate · 81 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 Maulding v. Commonwealth · Davis v. Commonwealth · Rowe v. Commonwealth · Held v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Saylor
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [the defendant] operates [his automobile] upon the highway in a manner that he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe is reasonably calculated to injure others using the highway, and under such circumstances recklessly, wantonly and with gross carelessness strikes and kills another this constitutes voluntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is to be regretted that the prosecuting attorney wandered so far afield (in his argument); whether through lack of knowledge or through reckless indifference to the duties of his office, his conduct calls for a sharp reprimand.””
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.