State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Earnhardt (1982), State v. Bullard (1984)
92 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 State v. Stephens · State v. Palmer · State v. Davis · State v. Burton · State v. Sears
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he defendant's evidence, unless favorable to the State, is not to be taken into consideration.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rules governing motions to dismiss in criminal cases are well settled and familiar. When a defendant moves for dismissal, the trial judge must determine whether there is “substantial evidence of each essential element of the offense charged and of the defendant being the perpetrator of the crime.” The term “substantial evidence” is deceptive because, as interpreted by this Court in the context of a motion to dismiss, it is interchangeable with “more than a scintilla of evidence.” Thus, the true test of whether to grant a motion to dismiss is whether the evidence, considered in the light most favorable to the State, is “existing and real, not just seeming or imaginary.” If the evidence will permit a reasonable inference that the defendant is guilty of the crime charged, the trial judge should allow the case to go to the jury. This is true whether the evidence is direct, circumstantial or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The State’s evidence in this case establishes a brutal murder. It shows that defendant had the opportunity to commit it and begets suspicion in imaginative minds. All' the evidence engenders the question, if defendant didn’t kill his wife, who did? To raise such a question, however, will not suffice to sustain a conviction.”
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.