State v. . Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably State v. Wilson (1985), State v. Foster (1966)
42 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The identity of the fruits of the crime must be established before the presumption of recent possession can apply. The presumption is not in aid of identifying or locating the stolen property, but in tracking down the thief upon its discovery.” State v. Jones, 227 N.C. 47, 49 , 40 S.E. 2d 458, 460 (1946).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holland · State v. Greene“* * * verdicts and judgments in criminal cases ought to be clear and free from ambiguity or uncertainty. The matters involved the enforcement of the criminal law and the liberty of the citizenare worthy of exactitude.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Courtney
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.