Jones v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
42
cited by 42 later decisions
2
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
42 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Michigan v. Summers · State v. Padua · Sengupta v. University of Alaska · Allustiarte v. United States · Riner v. Com.
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.
“Criminal negligence ... is judged under an objective standard and, therefore, may be found to exist where the offender either knew or should have known the probable results of his acts. Thus, criminal negligence “is acting consciously in disregard of another person’s rights or acting with reckless indifference to the consequences, with the defendant aware, from his knowledge of existing circumstances and conditions, that his conduct probably would cause injury to another.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any parent, guardian or other person responsible for the care of a child under the age of 18 whose willful act or omission in the care of such child was so gross, wanton and culpable as to show a reckless disregard for human life shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the connection between illegal drug operations and guns in our society is a tight one”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCain v. Com. · Com. v. Smith
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.