State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The purpose of this mandatory prohibition of our 1966 code is to avoid the use of racial prejudice to obtain convictions. This is in accord with our jurisprudence since our earliest days as an American jurisdiction. It is, of course, founded upon a stringent requirement that trials be conducted in accordance with law and that convictions be founded on evidence of guilt and not upon prejudice. Without this mandatory rule of law, the convictions of innocent defendants may be secured, not because of their guilt, but because of their race." ( 278 So.2d at 98 )”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Wilson

2. “"Upon motion of a defendant, a mistrial shall be ordered when a remark or comment, made within the hearing of the jury by the . . . district attorney. . . during the trial . . . refers directly or indirectly to: (2) Another crime committed or alleged to have been committed by the defendant as to which evidence is not admissible." (Emphasis provided)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Price

3. “connote a criminal record and create a prejudicial effect upon the jury. Jones was concerned with the actual introduction into evidence of the”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Price