Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Hunt v. State (1988), 167 W. Va. 252 - State v. Payne (1981)
31 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 Watson v. State · Judy v. State · Tasco v. State · Davis v. State · Kucharczyk v. State
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There was testimony that the defendant left the State after the alleged crimes. While flight alone is not sufficient to convict, it is universally admissible as evidence of consciousness of guilt and thus of guilt itself. It is for you to determine from the credibility of the evidence whether or not there was flight and whether or not it was caused by consciousness of guilt or by some other innocent motive.”
1 later decision 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.