State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Salazar (1997), State v. Costa (1980)
56 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Faretta v. California · Durham v. United States · Commonwealth v. Walker · State v. Ponds and Garrett
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * While death moots the sentence, renders impossible a new trial, and abates any fine imposed, the matter of costs remains. The state and the defendant (not to mention his family) have endured the strain, the tribulation and the expense of trial and appeal. Oftentimes rights other than those of an individual defendant are involved. The right to inherit, or to take by will or otherwise, may be affected.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Moeller · State v. Karson“Death of an appellant during the pendency of his direct appeal from the conviction of a criminal offense does not abate the appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hollister“proceeding should be adjudicated upon the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hollister
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.