Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1940
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Did falsely pretend to one John T. Carr that he, the said Washington Jones, was one Walter Kirby, by means of which said false pretense the said Washington Jones did then and there unlawfully, knowingly and designedly, fraudulently obtain from the said John T. Carr, sixteen five dollar bills of the currency of the United States. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cook
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.