Jones v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably 167 W. Va. 411 - State v. Daggett (1981), 14 Va. App. 892 - Hall v. Commonwealth (1992)
78 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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Brown v. Ohio · Ex Parte Nielsen · Pierce 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“forbids multiple prosecution of offenses springing from the same criminal act.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Manifestly, a robbery indictment includes all elements of whatever larceny offense it charges, whether grand or petit, and the larceny offense charged is, therefore, lesser-included in robbery.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the same act be a violation of two or more statutes ... conviction under one of such statutes ... shall be a bar to a prosecution or proceeding under the other or others.”
5 later decisions 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.