State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Hines (1998), State v. Brown (1995)
118 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 Schmerber v. State of California · McNabb v. United States · Bell v. United States · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Conway v. Statesman Mortgage Co.
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judicial authority may order that two or more indictments or informations or both, whether against the same defendant or different defendants, be tried together .... A judicial authority may also order separate trials if it appears that a defendant is prejudiced by joinder .... This does not mean that severance is to be had for the asking .... The question of severance lies within the discretion of the trial court. We will not disturb the trial court's conclusion on the issue absent a clear abuse of discretion. The discretion to sever a trial should be exercised only if a joint trial will substantially prejudice the defendant. Substantial prejudice is more than disadvantage and the formidable task of demonstrating an abuse of discretion and that a joint trial resulted in substantial prejudice falls to the defendant .... Simply put, the test to be applied is whether substantial injustice will result if the charges are tried together.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Under the facts and circumstances of this case, where the defendant, on the basis of his religious beliefs, and with some success, took proper advantage of our legal process to challenge the state’s efforts to compel the taking of nontestimonial evidence, where the defendant allowed [an investigator] to take the evidence without the need to use physical compulsion and where the results of the tests on the evidence have absolutely no probative value of the defendant’s guilt, the court may not instruct the jury that it may draw the inference that the defendant’s conduct is evidence of a guilty conscience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The jury [at the second trial] reasonably could have found the following facts. On the morning of October 17, 1990, Bonaventure Console, who resided at 365 Howard Avenue, New Haven, saw the [petitioner] walking toward an automobile parked across the street from his home. A white male, later identified as the victim, Wayne Curtis, was seated in the front of the vehicle. Console had frequently seen the [petitioner] in that neighborhood and later that same day ... described him to the police as a black male with braided hair who always wore camouflage clothing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.