Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Farley v. State (1995), 236 Ga. App. 14 - Gomillion v. State (1999)
44 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Edge v. State · Earnest v. State · Austin v. Carter
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mistake of fact is a defense to a crime to the extent that the ignorance of some fact negates the existence of the mental state required to establish a material element of the crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the absence of all elements of justification or excuse and the presence of an actual intent to cause the particular harm, or the wanton and wilful doing of an act with an awareness of a plain and strong likelihood that such harm might result. '”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kennedy v. State“if the act or omission to act constituting the crime was induced by a misapprehension of fact which, if true, would have justified the act or omission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LAW v. the STATE.
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.