Jones v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Stamper v. Commonwealth (1979), Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth (1982)
3 federal appellate · 27 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Gore v. United States · Gavieres v. United States · 7 Cal. 3d 666 - People v. Chambers
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The crime of robbery as defined at common law involves a forceful taking by “violence or intimidation” but such force need not be by means of the use or threat of presenting a firearm. Robbery may be committed in many ways, such as by partial strangulation or suffocation, or by striking or beating with the fist or other less dangerous devices. . . The “gist” of Code § 18.2-53.1 is the use of a firearm in situations where it is likely that weapons may be used to injure victims of robbery or bystanders. Under the statute, such use is made a separate and distinct offense. Thus, the crime of robbery and the crime of using a firearm in committing robbery have different elements as a matter of law, although they may have common elements as a matter of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the taking, with intent to steal, of the personal property of another, from his person or in his presence, against his will, by violence or intimidation.'”
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.