Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Henry v. State (1983), Turner v. State (1996)
46 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 Graves v. United States · Gordon v. United States · Alford v. State · Control Data Corp. v. International Business Machines Corp. · Sellers 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the facts of this case the prejudicial effect of the previous conviction clearly outweighed its value as bearing on credibility. There may be instances in which proof of an earlier conviction for the same crime as that on trial may be admissible, but there are sometimes strong reasons for excluding such proof because of the pressure on lay jurors to believe that “if he did it before he probably did so this time.” [Cite omitted.] That is especially true in the case at bar, because sexual abuse of a child is a particularly shameful and outrageous crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. State · Floyd v. State“[f]or the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, evidence that he has been convicted of a crime shall be admitted but only if the crime (1) was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one (1) year under the law under which he was convicted, and the court determines that the probative value of admitting this evidence outweighs its prejudicial effect to a party or a witness, or (2) involved dishonesty or false statement, regardless of the punishment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Uniform Rule is specifically directed to the conviction’s probative value with respect only to credibility, because under both our common law and the Uniform Rules proof of an earlier crime is not admissible merely to bolster the prosecution’s case by showing that the accused is a person of bad character, addicted to crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Floyd v. 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.